ZhangHuangbin wrote:
Personally, i think the painless way is packaging it as a binary package like RPM/DEB, then upgrade it.
Just curious:
*) Why not use the version officially provided by Linux distribution? What feature in 1.0.1e do you need?
*) Linux vender will patch currently shipped version to fix bugs, but usually no new features.
OpenSSL is a fundamental protection from email snooping. Without getting too paranoid about things, I would like to use the latest versions of these essential packages.
There's a really interesting & informative technical article about NSA & SSL here :-
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com … k-ssl.html
I think building my own packages will be the way to go... Thanks