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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:19:03PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> Is it true that configure tests for the existence of librsaref.a, and
> if it finds it, it assumes that that rsaref is supposed to be used---*even
> if openssl was not built with rsaref support* ?

My understanding of things is that OpenSSH doesn't care either way; the
RSA routines are all accessed through OpenSSL's libcrypto. The only check
OpenSSH's configure script makes is to see if librsaglue is installed,
which signals that OpenSSL was built with rsaref. OpenSSH reports this,
but except for that, has no use for the information.

Nalin

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Mate Wierdl wrote:

> Is it true that configure tests for the existence of librsaref.a, and
> if it finds it, it assumes that that rsaref is supposed to be used---*even
> if openssl was not built with rsaref support* ?

The 1.2.3pre2 snapshot configure tries to compile and execute a
test program. It tries first without RSAref and then with RSAref.

It stops when the test program compiles and executes.

-d

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