On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Jim Schutt <jaschut@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Commit 15d8bdf3bf switched to libcrypto++ (AKA libcryptopp) > for aes, rather than openssl. > > It appears that RedHat does not package this > library for either Enterprise 5 > http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/ > or Enterprise 6 > http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/ > > According to > http://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Linux#Distributions_Offering_Crypto.2B.2B > it's the only major distro that doesn't. > > So, what's the right thing to do? Will it be feasible to > fall back to openssl if libcryto++ isn't available? >From what I can tell you can get currently the required rpm from rpmforge: http://packages.sw.be/cryptopp/ This is not supported officially by RH. > > Are there any RedHat employees on the list who can learn > whether there is any chance that RedHat can package > libcrypto++/libcryptopp? > If you (or anyone else that needs it for that matter) have a support contract with RH you can try open a bugzilla request asking them to pick it up. If we find it to be a real issue we might consider switching to gnutls instead of libcrypto++, however, the issue there is that we'd have to drop support to older distributions (as it didn't export the required lower-level crypto functions until more recent releases). Thanks, Yehuda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
