Autor: W B Hacker Data: Para: exim-users Asunto: Re: [exim] Re: no reply to STARTTLS
Sven Hartge wrote:
> Um 04:43 Uhr am 18.02.06 schrieb W B Hacker:
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>>With fewer than ten servers running Exim, I cannot say for *sure*, but
>>with OpenSSL on FreeBSD this has never been an issue for us with Exim,
>>Qmail, Courier-MTA, DBMail, several IMAP/POP daemons, or anything else
>>that uses SSL/TLS/or SSH.
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> *BSD behaves different than Linux > 2.6.11
For which I am eternally grateful!
Just lazy, I guess. ;-)
> so you are comparing apples and
> lemons.
No. Volume of juice.
AFAIK, *BSD and Linux *can* use either one.
Or both.
Not that they are equal in all respects.
Open or parts therof are a 'natural' for BSD, but I have from
time to time had GNUTLS alongside for apps that wanted it.
I'm agnostic.
> Also gnutls uses far more entropy than openssl.
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Sounds advantageous, security-wise, on the face of it.
- Providing it doesn't break in some other way...
