This file is divided in the following parts:
+ Checking the distribution - Mandatory reading.
Compilation - Mandatory reading.
+ Logical names - Mandatory reading.
Test - Mandatory reading.
Installation - Mandatory reading.
Backward portability - Read if it's an issue.
Possible bugs or quirks - A few warnings on things that
may go wrong or may surprise you.
- Report - How to get in touch with me.
+ TODO - Things that are to come.
+
+
+Checking the distribution:
+==========================
+
+There have been reports of places where the distribution didn't quite get
+through, for example if you've copied the tree from a NFS-mounted unix
+mount point.
+
+The easiest way to check if everything got through as it should is to check
+for oen of the following files:
+
+ [.CRYPTO]OPENSSLCONF.H_IN
+ [.CRYPTO]OPENSSLCONF_H.IN
+
+They should never exist both at once, but one of them should (preferably
+the first variant). If you can't find any of those two, something went
+wrong.
+
+The best way to get a correct distribution is to download the gzipped tar
+file from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/, use GUNZIP to uncompress it and
+use VMSTAR to unpack the resulting tar file.
+
+GUNZIP is available in many places on the net. One of the distribution
+points is the WKU software archive, ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/ .
+
+VMSTAR is also available in many places on the net. The recommended place
+to find information about it is http://www.free.lp.se/vmstar/ .
Compilation:
RSAREF compile using the RSAREF Library
NORSAREF compile without using RSAREF
-Note 1: The RSAREF libraries are NOT INCLUDED and you have to
- download it from "ftp://ftp.rsa.com/rsaref". You have to
- get the ".tar-Z" file as the ".zip" file doesn't have the
- directory structure stored. You have to extract the file
- into the [.RSAREF] directory as that is where the scripts
- will look for the files.
+Note 0: The RASREF library IS NO LONGER NEEDED. The RSA patent
+ expires September 20, 2000, and RSA Security chose to make
+ the algorithm public domain two weeks before that.
+
+Note 1: If you still want to use RSAREF, the library is NOT INCLUDED
+ and you have to download it. RSA Security doesn't carry it
+ any more, but there are a number of places where you can find
+ it. You have to get the ".tar-Z" file as the ".zip" file
+ doesn't have the directory structure stored. You have to
+ extract the file into the [.RSAREF] directory as that is where
+ the scripts will look for the files.
Note 2: I have never done this, so I've no idea if it works or not.
used. This is good to try if something doesn't work.
OPENSSL_NO_'alg' with value YES, the corresponding crypto algorithm
will not be implemented. Supported algorithms to
- do this with are: RSA, DSA, DH, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD,
+ do this with are: RSA, DSA, DH, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD,
SHA, DES, MDC2, CR2, RC4, RC5, IDEA, BF, CAST, HMAC,
SSL2. So, for example, having the logical name
OPENSSL_NO_RSA with the value YES means that the