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diff --git a/crypto/openssh/INSTALL b/crypto/openssh/INSTALL index 5767230..3dfe08d 100644 --- a/crypto/openssh/INSTALL +++ b/crypto/openssh/INSTALL @@ -1,22 +1,26 @@ 1. Prerequisites ---------------- -You will need working installations of Zlib and OpenSSL. +You will need working installations of Zlib and libcrypto (LibreSSL / +OpenSSL) Zlib 1.1.4 or 1.2.1.2 or greater (ealier 1.2.x versions have problems): http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ -OpenSSL 0.9.6 or greater: -http://www.openssl.org/ +libcrypto (LibreSSL or OpenSSL >= 0.9.8f) +LibreSSL http://www.libressl.org/ ; or +OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/ -(OpenSSL 0.9.5a is partially supported, but some ciphers (SSH protocol 1 -Blowfish) do not work correctly.) +LibreSSL/OpenSSL should be compiled as a position-independent library +(i.e. with -fPIC) otherwise OpenSSH will not be able to link with it. +If you must use a non-position-independent libcrypto, then you may need +to configure OpenSSH --without-pie. The remaining items are optional. NB. If you operating system supports /dev/random, you should configure -OpenSSL to use it. OpenSSH relies on OpenSSL's direct support of -/dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd +libcrypto (LibreSSL/OpenSSL) to use it. OpenSSH relies on libcrypto's +direct support of /dev/random, or failing that, either prngd or egd PRNGD: @@ -27,10 +31,10 @@ http://prngd.sourceforge.net/ EGD: -The Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is supported if you have a system which -lacks /dev/random and don't want to use OpenSSH's internal entropy collection. +If the kernel lacks /dev/random the Entropy Gathering Daemon (EGD) is +supported only if libcrypto supports it. -http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ +http://egd.sourceforge.net/ PAM: @@ -204,10 +208,11 @@ created. --with-xauth=PATH specifies the location of the xauth binary ---with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your OpenSSL libraries +--with-ssl-dir=DIR allows you to specify where your Libre/OpenSSL +libraries are installed. ---with-ssl-engine enables OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support +--with-ssl-engine enables Libre/OpenSSL's (hardware) ENGINE support --with-4in6 Check for IPv4 in IPv6 mapped addresses and convert them to real (AF_INET) IPv4 addresses. Works around some quirks on Linux. @@ -266,4 +271,4 @@ Please refer to the "reporting bugs" section of the webpage at http://www.openssh.com/ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.88 2013/03/07 01:33:35 dtucker Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.91 2014/09/09 02:23:11 dtucker Exp $ |
