RE: consistency amongst binaries

2004-08-17 Thread Bruce Shaw
Does this affect us? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/17/0030243&tid=93&tid=162&tid=1&tid =218 BS> When will 0.9.7 be ready for prime time? TA>It is. Like I said: get latest 0.9.7-stable snapshot. It's the best OpenSSL there is. BTW, this is the OpenSSL core developer's recommendation, n

Re: consistency amongst binaries

2004-08-17 Thread Thomas Anders
Bruce Shaw wrote: So what needs to be installed on the computers receiving the binaries? > Do I have to cobble up an openssl install as well? "ldd" is your friend. The net-snmp binaries are linked against libcrypto.so.0.9.7, so you need just that. Or compile static. > When will 0.9.7 be ready for

RE: consistency amongst binaries

2004-08-16 Thread Bruce Shaw
> What openssl should I be using? In general, latest 0.9.7-stable snapshot is preferred over released 0.9.7d which has nasty bugs. Those known bugs fortunately don't affect Net-SNMP, though. So what needs to be installed on the computers receiving the binaries? Do I have to cobble up an openssl

Re: consistency amongst binaries

2004-08-16 Thread Thomas Anders
Bruce Shaw wrote: Encryption suport: DES AES128 AES192 AES256 [...] To get the extras, do I simply upgrade openssl or do I need a newer gcc? The former: upgrade OpenSSL. Will upgrading openssl break other applications relying open ssl? That depends on the applications and how you compiled and insta

consistency amongst binaries

2004-08-16 Thread Bruce Shaw
I'm compiling net-snmp-5.1.2 across a variety of Solaris platforms and getting different results. I'm assuming it's because of differences between gcc and openssl versions. FOr example, on a sun4m Solaris 8 box using gcc 3.3 and openssl 0.9.7d I get: Authentication support: MD5 SHA1 Encryption