[openssl-dev] Ubsec and Chil engines

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Fri Feb 19 13:03:44 UTC 2016


On Pá, 2016-02-19 at 11:31 +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:


> So it seems that for chil there may possibly be some rare use (but
> even
> the most recent evidence is 4 years old). However the OpenSSL dev
> team
> do not have access to this hardware to maintain the engine and (as
> noted
> above) this is currently not building in 1.1.0.
> 
> In both cases I would like to remove these engines from 1.1.0. I'd
> like
> to hear from the community if there is any active use of these. One
> option if there is found to be some small scale use is to spin out
> the
> engine into a separately managed repo (as has happened recently with
> the
> GOST engine).
> 
> If I don't hear from anyone I will remove these.

As far as I know there are some customers using the Chil engine with
RHEL (openssl-1.0.1). 

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb
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