Re: [exim-dev] Remove RSA_EXPORT support

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: Andreas Metzler
Υ/ο: exim-dev
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim-dev] Remove RSA_EXPORT support
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> The patch slightly breaks backwards compatibility. Exim is not able
> anymore to read old-format (4.50 and earlier) gnutlsparams file. - It
> is necessary to remove the old file on upgrades from older versions,
> otherwise exim aborts TLS connections with
>
> TLS error on connection from ... (DH params import): Base64 decoding error.


I think that 4.51 was sufficiently long ago (May 2005) that this can be
handled by suitable documentation. I have added information about this
to the README.UPDATING file for the next release. Thanks for pointing
out the problem.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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