OpenSSH and OpenSSL snapshots

[Booker C. Bense]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:20:09PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 20:16, Markus Friedl wrote:
> >
> > > But why break binary compatibility for 99% of the
> > > users if 1% have problems with linking?
> > >
> > > Why not provide an 'option' for for these 1%,
> > > that allows then to use the new API, e.g
> > > 	#define OPENSSL_NEW_DES_API
> > > 	#include <openssl/des.h>
> >
> > Or at least a way to enable the old API:
> >
> > 	#define OPENSSL_OLD_DES_API
> > 	#include <openssl/des.h>
> >
> > We don't have the luxury of only supporting the most recent OpenSSL
> > release and we don't want to pollute our code with #ifdef's everywhere.

- They don't have to, but I can't convince them of that.

>
> Ok, the behaviour of the OpenSSL-0.9.7 has been adjusted:
> The old interface is now working again by default, as long as
> OPENSSL_NO_OLD_DES_SUPPORT is not defined. Applications should
> be changed to the DES_* interface in the long run, as the old
> interface will go away at some point in the future.
>
> (Please note, that 0.9.7 providing the new interface is not even out...)
>

- Just to confirm, the routines will be DES_foo , but you are playing
cpp macro games to provide the old interface?

- Booker C. Bense