Ubuntu
openssl package

  1. Bug #1864689
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1864689

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Jonathan Kamens (jik) wrote :

Fair enough, I will contact the web site maintainer. However, regarding this:

>You can override this via command-line, a system config file, or a local config file + environment variable pointing to it.
>
>On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
>
>man SSL_CTX_get_security_level.3ssl

1) I searched high, low, and sideways, and couldn't find any documentation of how to override this via a config file or environment variable. Regarding command line, I imagine that is going to be different for each program, and I did manage to figure out how to do it for curl, but it took a huge amount of educated effort that the vast majority of users are not going to be able to figure out.

2) I don't know what deb the man pages for the OpenSSL API are in, but whichever one it is, it's not in the package install set that most people get. That man page is not available on my system, for example.