[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-1.0.2g-3

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  8 19:02, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Corinna Vinschen
> <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 1.0.2g-3.
> >
> > This version enables the IDEA and RC5 crypto ciphers.  The IDEA patent
> > expired in 2012 (and should have been added long ago), the RC5 patent
> > expired in November 2015.
> 
> Do we really need those? OpenSSL is already full of bugs and enabling
> these obscure ciphers might open new can of bugs.

IDEA is enabled on Linux OpenSSL for quite some time, OpenSSL on Fedora
24 will follow suite with RC5 in the next couple of days.


Corinna

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