In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 4 May 2006 17:14:01 -0700, Randy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
rturner> Is there a brief on the reasons why someone would want to use rturner> OpenSSL 0.9.7j or choose to use 0.9.8b? There are two answers to that. You nailed one of them: rturner> I believe one of the items is that the 0.9.7 branch can be rturner> part of a solution for FIPS compliance, where 0.9.8b is "not rturner> there" yet. The other answer is that there are incompatibilities, both in source and in binary, between the 0.9.7 series and the 0.9.8 one, and changing from one to the other has consequences for the software that you link with OpenSSL. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
