Hi devs, (openssl, packages relaying on ssl) Searching the bug reports for 'padlock' lists numerous hits asking for padlock requests. Since most padlock-requests are denied with comment 'get it to upstream' and we probably all now, upstream will not include this in the very near feature, I beg you all to make it work, though. A lot of users will thank you this and it is not a big deal to get it going. Btw, gentoo already has a useflag 'padlock', so why not extending the feature to packages, that could relay on padlock? (padlock is in the kernel and well supported) Status: openssl is prepared to work with padlock, even though there is a bug in openssl which will be fixed soon, I guess it is already done so in cvs/svn. All packages relying on openssl must load the padlock engine in openssl with something similar to, may be there is another way to do so: #include <openssl/engine.h> int main () { [...] /* Init available hardware crypto engines. */ ENGINE_load_builtin_engines(); ENGINE_register_all_complete(); [...] } A very good place to look for information is: http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/ There are already patches for most stuff. So please, see this rather as a discussion as a bug: What do you all think about padlock and should we get it going? I would be very happy to hear you all. Thx for reading, cecilia
(In reply to comment #0) > So please, see this rather as a discussion as a bug: > What do you all think about padlock and should we get it going? > I would be very happy to hear you all. Bugzilla really sucks for discussions; please take this to gentoo-dev mailing list. Thanks.
