> I have not tried to reference the discussion with the openssl folks as
> it has already been reported.
That's the reference I'm asking for.
> But what I think is that it would be only be available for 0.9.9
> release. However there is there's no release date and no indication as
> to how long will it take.
On what basis do you make this guess?
> I do understand that it is an overhead for maintaining the extra
> packages. I also do not know what overheads are required, so if it is
> too much to ask for, then I accept that.
This problem does not only affect ubuntu, but every distribution that
uses tools like wpa_supplicant and network-manager. Please let's try to
get this issue fixed at the right place: Openssl upstream.
> I was not trying to overexaggerate, what I meant was enterprise
> environments which ONLY use EAP-FAST protocol for authenticating to
> wireless. Without the patch, there doesn't seem to be any other way to
> get that to work.
Adrian Quek <email address hidden> writes:
> I have not tried to reference the discussion with the openssl folks as
> it has already been reported.
That's the reference I'm asking for.
> But what I think is that it would be only be available for 0.9.9
> release. However there is there's no release date and no indication as
> to how long will it take.
On what basis do you make this guess?
> I do understand that it is an overhead for maintaining the extra
> packages. I also do not know what overheads are required, so if it is
> too much to ask for, then I accept that.
This problem does not only affect ubuntu, but every distribution that
uses tools like wpa_supplicant and network-manager. Please let's try to
get this issue fixed at the right place: Openssl upstream.
> I was not trying to overexaggerate, what I meant was enterprise
> environments which ONLY use EAP-FAST protocol for authenticating to
> wireless. Without the patch, there doesn't seem to be any other way to
> get that to work.
That is indeed correct.
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