• OpenSSL Versions End of Life Dates

    From Randall@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 4 06:20:06 2022
    Hi Everyone,

    The OpenSSL team has just published the end-of-life dates (they call them LTS or Long Term Support dates). These are the dates where specific version series will be supported by that team for the Open Source community (a.k.a., us without support
    contracts). Here they are:

    1.1.1 will be supported until 11th September 2023.
    3.0 will be supported until 7th September 2026.

    Users are encouraged to migrate to 3.0 as soon as they are able.

    Note that ITUGLIB does not have control over these dates.

    Kind Regards,
    Randall Becker
    On behalf of the ITUGLIB Technical Committee

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  • From Peter Collins@21:1/5 to Randall on Mon Apr 4 18:40:36 2022
    On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:20:08 UTC+11, Randall wrote:
    Hi Everyone,

    The OpenSSL team has just published the end-of-life dates (they call them LTS or Long Term Support dates). These are the dates where specific version series will be supported by that team for the Open Source community (a.k.a., us without support
    contracts). Here they are:

    1.1.1 will be supported until 11th September 2023.
    3.0 will be supported until 7th September 2026.

    Users are encouraged to migrate to 3.0 as soon as they are able.

    Note that ITUGLIB does not have control over these dates.

    Kind Regards,
    Randall Becker
    On behalf of the ITUGLIB Technical Committee

    Hi Randall,

    Just a quick question regarding OPENSSL 1.1.1 from Tuglib (dated 16th March 2022)

    I've downloaded the Tar file and installed it.
    Setup the library location etc.; and OpenSSL starts up ok.

    But ... any operation that required random numbers creates EGD errors :( and fails.

    This is on an NonStop NSX box running L20.10.00:

    OpenSSL> version -a
    OpenSSL 1.1.1n 15 Mar 2022
    built on: Wed Mar 16 02:20:50 2022 UTC
    platform: nonstop-nsx
    options: bn(32,32) rc4(int) des(long) idea(int) blowfish(ptr)
    compiler: c99 -Wverbose -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wextensions -Wnowarn=203,220,272,734,770,1506 -Wbuild_neutral_library -Wverbose -I/usr/local/include -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_VPROC= -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1 -DB_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_
    SYSNAME_TANDEM -DOPENSSL_TANDEM_FLOSS -DNDEBUG
    OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/local-ssl1.1/ssl"
    ENGINESDIR: "/usr/local-ssl1.1/lib/engines-1.1"
    Seeding source: EGD ( "/var/run/egd-pool" "/dev/egd-pool" "/etc/egd-pool" "/etc/entropy" )

    Any thoughts?

    Regards,

    Peter Collins

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  • From Randall@21:1/5 to Peter Collins on Tue Apr 5 12:06:40 2022
    On Monday, April 4, 2022 at 9:40:37 p.m. UTC-4, Peter Collins wrote:
    On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:20:08 UTC+11, Randall wrote:
    Hi Everyone,

    The OpenSSL team has just published the end-of-life dates (they call them LTS or Long Term Support dates). These are the dates where specific version series will be supported by that team for the Open Source community (a.k.a., us without support
    contracts). Here they are:

    1.1.1 will be supported until 11th September 2023.
    3.0 will be supported until 7th September 2026.

    Users are encouraged to migrate to 3.0 as soon as they are able.

    Note that ITUGLIB does not have control over these dates.

    Kind Regards,
    Randall Becker
    On behalf of the ITUGLIB Technical Committee
    Hi Randall,

    Just a quick question regarding OPENSSL 1.1.1 from Tuglib (dated 16th March 2022)

    Hi Peter,

    PRNGD should be run out of coreutils. The ITUGLIB OpenSSL will use it for 1.x releases. At 3.x, we use the hardware randomizer so PRNGD is no longer required.

    Regards,
    Randall

    I've downloaded the Tar file and installed it.
    Setup the library location etc.; and OpenSSL starts up ok.

    But ... any operation that required random numbers creates EGD errors :( and fails.

    This is on an NonStop NSX box running L20.10.00:

    OpenSSL> version -a
    OpenSSL 1.1.1n 15 Mar 2022
    built on: Wed Mar 16 02:20:50 2022 UTC
    platform: nonstop-nsx
    options: bn(32,32) rc4(int) des(long) idea(int) blowfish(ptr)
    compiler: c99 -Wverbose -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -Wextensions -Wnowarn=203,220,272,734,770,1506 -Wbuild_neutral_library -Wverbose -I/usr/local/include -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_VPROC= -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1 -DB_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_
    SYSNAME_TANDEM -DOPENSSL_TANDEM_FLOSS -DNDEBUG
    OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/local-ssl1.1/ssl"
    ENGINESDIR: "/usr/local-ssl1.1/lib/engines-1.1"
    Seeding source: EGD ( "/var/run/egd-pool" "/dev/egd-pool" "/etc/egd-pool" "/etc/entropy" )

    Any thoughts?

    Regards,

    Peter Collins

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