GOST in OPENSSL_BASE

Slawa Olhovchenkov slw at zxy.spb.ru
Mon Jul 11 16:29:01 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016, at 05:29, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > 
> > I.e. GOST will be available in openssl.
> > Under BSD-like license.
> > Can be this engine import in base system and enabled at time 1.1.0?
> > And can be GOST enabled now?
> > 
> 
> I think the wrong question is being asked here. Instead we need to focus
> on decoupling openssl from base so this can all be handled by ports.

This is wrong direction with current policy.
ports: unsupported by FreeBSD core and securite team, no guaranted to comaptible
between options and applications.

base: supported by FreeBSD core and securite team, covered by CI,
checked for forward and backward API and ABI compatibility.


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