Shawn Walker wrote:

>I would also note that they have not been in the closed-bin tar bundle
>for quite some time now, though I haven't checked the last two or
>three builds.
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Right, especially the libssl_extra.so.0.9.8 and libcrypto_extra.so.0.9.8 
is missed.

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>On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Emery Rudolph <erudolph at uxix.com> wrote:
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>>Hello Valerie,
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>> There is so much conflicting information regarding this matter, I am glad to 
>> speak to a primary developer. My confusion is that I keep hearing that I 
>> would need to upgrade these packages, but I do not have them installed at 
>> all. I have read some information saying it was included with the build and 
>> others saying I need to download and install them. Can you tell me which is 
>> correct? If I do not have them installed can you send the the exact link to 
>> the packages.
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>> Additionally, would you know if the lack of these packages would result in 
>> WPA WAPs showing up as WEP in the dladm scan-wifi output?
>>
>> Emery
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>> Hi Emery -
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>> Yes, you do need to upgrade the SUNWcry/SUNWcryr packages everytime you 
>> upgrade
>> your system. These are available in the closed-bin tar bundle, associated
>> with each build.  I'm not sure, specifically, how this affects WPA driver, 
>> but
>> I do know that changes in the core crypto components often require all the
>> modules to be updated as well for other tasks.
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>> This is documented here:
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crypto/Documentation/sunwcry/
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>> This will soon be changing, as I am wrapping up a project to pull strong
>> crypto into the base OS.
>>
>> hope that helps,
>>
>> Valerie
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>> Solaris Security Technologies,  Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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