On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:54 -0700, Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub wrote: > 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. Also, it's easy to build libcrytopp from source; that's what I'll do for the time being. > > > > 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). We will open such a request to see what they say. I'm hopeful ceph will be included in a RedHat distribution some day, so that this will be sorted one way or another. Thanks -- Jim > > 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
