Re: [Mixmaster-devel] dizum 2.9b40 (NO RSA)

[Peter P. <pe...@pa...>]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Alex de Joode wrote:

> Dizum moved to new hardware and in the process we upgraded mixmaster
> to 2.9b40.

> two questions:
>=20
> 1) How can I add RSA compatability ?
> 2) Why was I not warned by the script that I would lose this ?

} Found at /usr/lib/libncurses.so.
} tmptst.c:1: openssl/idea.h: No such file or directory
} WARNING: Building without IDEA. This means (among other things) that
} Mixmaster will not create an RSA OpenPGP key (to cut down mail loss)

> (if you like)
> 3) Why this design decision ?

To build without IDEA.

If you have IDEA everything stays as it was. If you don't have IDEA in
your OpenSSL library Mixmaster still builds but does not create a RSA
key so that pgp 2.* users don't get fooled into thinking their mail
would get accepted.

					yours,
					peter
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