Purpose of check_openssl_version?

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

The problem we had is people would compile OpenSSH dynamically against one
release of OpenSSL.  And then attempt to run it on another box with a
different release of OpenSSL.  Which causes a lot of unexplained problems
with OpenSSH failing randomly.

- Ben


On 27 Sep 2001, Matthew Vernon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Debian have #defined out this function in entropy.c for some time
> (since it causes things to break too often, given I don't maintain
> openssl). Does it serve a useful function security-wise?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
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