[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#576430: Bug#576430: fetchmail: Doesn't load all ssl algorhitms

[Matthias Andree]

Am 04.04.2010, 17:39 Uhr, schrieb Sjoerd Simons:

> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.15-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
>
> As the subject says, during openssl initialisation fetchmail doesn't  
> seem to load all ssl algorithms causing the ssl negotiation to fail  
> depending on what the server wants to use..

ssl(3) doesn't state that this OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms() is needed.  
Neither does SSL_connect or SSL_library_init. The only EVP reference is  
EVP_md5() explicitly, which doesn't need OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms()  
either. So could you:

1. please demonstrate an actual failure case

2. tell me how I as programmer should/could have known this in advance?  
I'm really annoyed that so much ssl lore needs to be retrofitted over time  
whenever there appears to be some new failure. ssl(3) states I need to run  
SSL_library_init and seed the RNG on machines without /dev/*random.  
Nothing about OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms().

If the OpenSSL documentation is so incomplete, I may have to switch the  
SSL library inside stable versions to avoid such issues.

Thank you.

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Matthias Andree