OpenSSL 3.0 LTS

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Fri Mar 4 15:28:45 UTC 2022


On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 02:31:01PM +0000, Short, Todd wrote:
> Apple uses LibreSSL, not OpenSSL, in their recent OSes:
> 
> ~$ openssl version -a
> LibreSSL 2.8.3
> built on: date not available
> platform: information not available
> options:  bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(idx,cisc,16,int) blowfish(idx)
> compiler: information not available
> OPENSSLDIR: "/private/etc/ssl"
> ~$ uname -mprsv
> Darwin 21.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.3.0: Wed Jan  5 21:37:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8019.80.24~20/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386
> ~$
>

This is goofy.  So we update to openssl 3 and Apple clients get locked out.

Libresll should get its act together.

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> 
> > On Mar 4, 2022, at 9:26 AM, The Doctor via openssl-users <openssl-users at openssl.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 11:04:00AM +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:
> >> OpenSSL 3.0 has recently been designated as a Long Term Support (LTS)
> >> release. This means that it will now be supported until 7th September
> >> 2026 (5 years after its initial release).
> >> 
> >> Our previous LTS release (1.1.1) will continue to be supported until
> >> 11th September 2023.
> >> 
> >> We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.0.
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > Though I full agree, what is Apple's stand on gettng their clients upgraded
> > to openssl3 compilance?
> > 
> >> Yours,
> >> The OpenSSL Project Team
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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