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

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Apr 6 10:08:05 UTC 2010


Sjoerd, Nico,

I filed an OpenSSL issue, and Stephen Henson replied:

   "It is only needed if certificates use algorithms other than the  
mandatory ones for general SSL/TLS use. This
hasn't been an issue in the past but more and more certificates are  
starting to appear using the SHA2 algorithms."
   -- <http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2224>
   - see <http://openssl.org/support/rt.html> for access credentials.

So perhaps that explains why it has gone unnoticed all the time - if  
certificates only used the mandatory algorithms, it simply wasn't needed.

-- 
Matthias Andree





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