Building openssh-3.5p1 with new DES functions

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <20021210085038.GA166 at folly> on Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:50:38 +0100, Markus Friedl <markus at openbsd.org> said:

markus> > It's including all those headers because it used to, and people will
markus> > complain if they don't get all those algorithms just by including
markus> > evp.h.
markus> 
markus> evp.h is supposed to hide the details of the algorithms.

I totally agree with the sentiment.  And we did remove those
inclusions at one point in the 0.9.7 branch.  At some point (after
another storm with Theo), I did a test compile of an old OpenSSH
against whatever was in the HEAD fo OpenSSL development at that time.
It went *KABOOM*, and the single cause for that *KABOOM* was that
evp.h didn't include all those algorithm headers any more.  After I
placed them back, I got just a couple of warnings that were a piec of
cake to deal with.

So, in light of a huge complaint from Theo that we're changing so damn
much between versions and breaking compiles of old programs that used
to work fine, I put those inclusions back.

I think that for 0.9.7, this part is staying as it is.

markus> you should either use the EVP_ or the DES_ interface, but not
markus> both.

Quite true.

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