> [[email protected] - Tue Apr 06 10:16:48 2010]:
> 
> I've recently received a report that my application, fetchmail, should  
> call OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(), see http://bugs.debian.org/576430
> Apparently OpenSSL 0.9.8 does not load SHA256.
> 
> If this is needed, please document this requirement on the manpages  
> crypto(3), ssl(3), and SSL_library_init(3). Fetchmail isn't using any
EVP  
> stuff besides EVP_md5, so the requirement to call _add_all_algorithms()  
> was unknown to the authors.
> 

I'll add a note to that. It is only needed if certificates use
algorithms other than the mandatory ones for general SSL/TLS use. This
hasn't been an issue in the past but more and more certificates are
starting to appear using the SHA2 algorithms.

Steve.
-- 
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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