Re: OpenSSL and Heimdal

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:45:27PM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 02 May 2012 23:14:41 Mark Felder wrote:
>> > Why go out of your way and use mod_gnutls?
>>
>> Because it supports TLSv1.[1|2], which was the PP's question, whereas
>> OpenSSL doesn't and doesn't show any signs of doing so in the near
>> future:
>>
>> https://www.openssl.org/support/funding/wishlist.html
>>
>> Note well the "If and when."
>>
>> IE might be the only client with support for those protocols right now
>> but somebody has to lead the way on the server side or you end up with
>> a mutual apathy loop (AKA positive can't be arsed feedback loop).
>
> Their website is out of date. =A0This is from CHANGES in OpenSSL 1.01a:
>
> =A0Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1:
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o SCTP support.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o Next Protocol Negotiation.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
> =A0 =A0 =A0o SRP support.
>
> Note the 3rd last bullet point.

Another reason to update the version in FreeBSD to 1.0.1b.
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