Redhat secure server - Dec 1998 - Re: Recompiling Redhat Secure Server.

Thanks for the prompt reply!  Will there be a fee associated with this
update?

Is soon by the end of this year?

Thanks,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
To: redhat-secure-server@redhat.com <redhat-secure-server@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Recompiling Redhat Secure Server.

>On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Robert Hentosh wrote:
>
>> Can one recompile the apache server and still have SSL in it?  I am
>> unfamilar with how the modules work with apache.  So is it just a
>> seperate object module that I can bind or have dynamicaly loaded when
>> the server starts?  So can I compile Apache 1.3.3 sources from
>> www.apache.org and take the SSL module from Redhat Secure Server and
>> now have a 128-bit SSL server?
>
>It is not possible to recompile the apache server, because we are not
>permitted to ship the cryptographic source code and the source code is
>needed to compile the server.  We aren''t allowed to ship it as a
separate,
>dynamically loadable object.
>
>We will soon have an update package available which will be based on
>Apache 1.3.3, upgrading from Apache 1.3.1.
>
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>  Red Hat Software, Inc.
>  pbrown@redhat.com
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Robert Hentosh wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply!  Will there be a fee associated with this
> update?
No. The version number will not change, either.  No new features are being
added, it will simply be an incremental bugfix release.
> Is soon by the end of this year?
Most likely.

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 -Preston Brown
  Red Hat Software, Inc.
  pbrown@redhat.com