Bug#362754: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#362754: Removal of RC5 and MDC2 algorithms is not clearly documented

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:23:06PM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Package: libssl0.9.8
> 
> Version: 0.9.8a-8
> 
> 
> Although the library is modified from its default form of including RC5 
> and MDC2, there's no README describing those changes clearly to 
> developers. This is very problematic since the removal of the algorithms 
> modifies the library's exported functions.

idea is also disabled.

Note that all of them have been removed since 0.9.6b-3 (in 2001)
because of patent problems.  You really can't say that we
modified the library's exported functions, since it never had
them in the first place.  They only existed in non-us, in a
library with different soname.

But maybe we should document this somewhere.


Kurt