[openssl-users] [openssl-dev] removing compression?

[Viktor Dukhovni]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 07:53:59PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:

> I am thinking about removing compression and would like to know
> what the community thinks.

At the very least drop "zlib-dynamic" support.  This has caused
"DLL-hell" on some platforms, when a dynamically loaded libz
conflicts with a different statically compiled libz in another
library.  For example, some "ports" versions of FreeBSD Postfix
with OpenSSL and MySQL crash in SSL_accept when compression is
negotiated (because MySQL includes an internal libz in those
builds).

My own builds of OpenSSL have always (over a decade now) been
"no-zlib".

-- 
	Viktor.