Legacy Provider

Dr Paul Dale paul.dale at oracle.com
Wed Jan 8 21:49:29 UTC 2020


Kurt,

It’s a policy decision: should we cause pain for users (& Matt) or effectively delay the end for these old/broken algorithms.

Technically it is easy.


Pauli
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> On 9 Jan 2020, at 6:30 am, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:57:55AM +1000, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
>> The refactoring/FIPS work needs the question resolved about loading the legacy provider or not by default.  We’ve been through this before on the project list [1] and in at least one PR [2].
>> 
>> I expect that its resolution will require an OMC vote.
> 
> Why OMC and not OTC?
> 
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 

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