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Re: Kerberos 1.9, can it be compiled to use OpenSSL .9.8 (FIPS140-2)?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Tue Jan 11 18:49:37 2011

From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:30:23 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <mailman.6.1294787028.4933.kerberos@mit.edu>,
Tom Yu  <tlyu@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>> Just to make sure that I understand correctly: 1.8 and earlier
>> implemented CTS mode internally, and this code was ripped out in 1.9
>> in favor of the implementation in OpenSSL 1.0?
>
>No.  The krb5-1.8 code has the same limitation of requiring the
>OpenSSL >= 1.0 implementation of CTS mode.

OK, I think I understand.  This only matters if you configure with
--with-crypto-impl=openssl, right?

-GAWollman
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