Re: [Libevent-users] Red Hat/Fedora systems, OpenSSL and libevent

[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> For more background, folks should see
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation and
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CryptoConsolidationEval
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl looks sweet.
>
> Want to see whether Libevent passes its unit tests when using that?
> I'm curious, but won't have time to check for a while.

I'm in the same boat.

>> By the way, OpenSSL does not have a stable ABI; according to
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/msg23746.html,
>> each release has a new ABI.   This is one of the reasons why
>> it's not part of the LSB.  (I suppose this might have changed now
>> that OpenSSL's hit 1.0, but I rather doubt it.)
>
> I think they're trying to move towards a more stable ABI with the
> addition of OPENSSL_NO_SSL_INTERN in 1.0.1, but I bet it will take a
> while before they add enough accessor functions.

Awesome.  Or, rather, about f'ing time.

The curmudgeon in me suspects they'll finish that about the
time everybody else finishes moving to nss.
- Dan
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