[systemd-devel] [RFC] Switching to OpenSSL 3?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Di, 14.09.21 10:26, Mike Gilbert (floppym at gentoo.org) wrote:

> > Anyway, I'd be interested in your thoughts about this. i.e. hear
> > multiple takes, opinions, from differently people and positions?
>
> I would definitely like to be able to depend on one crypto/TLS
> implementation that would cover all features in systemd, instead of
> having to depend on OpenSSL for some features, and GnuTLS for other
> features. The current situation is quite messy.
>
> Settling on OpenSSL sounds fine to me.
>
> It will probably take a few months for Gentoo to get fully upgraded to
> OpenSSL 3.0. Here is our tracker for that:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/797325
>
> Do you have a target date/milestone in mind for introducing this
> dependency in systemd?

Well, that depends on a) people actually agreeing that this is OK to
do, and b) someone actually doing the work.

I'd love to do it yesterday. But knowing how things work, this will be
a couple of months I guess, maybe half a year. Or could even be longer.

Lennart

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