[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 4/6] openssl: add option to disable PSK support

Karl Palsson karlp at tweak.net.au
Thu Jun 9 08:50:51 EDT 2016


Dirk Feytons <dirk.feytons at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 June 2016 at 13:55, Karl Palsson <karlp at tweak.net.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > This is turning off PSK by default right? I actually use that
> > option, and it's a relatively common use with mosquitto, which
> > supports PSK for client auth. Could you leave it on by default
> > please? PSK, and SRP are badly treated by people who wants certs
> > everywhere, but they're perfectly reasonable, if only people
> > would remember they exist.
> 
> Yes, PSK would be off by default. My reasoning was that OpenSSL
> is most often used for traditional HTTPS with certs and the
> default OpenSSL would support that but not (much) more. I know
> that Mosquitto requires it (IIRC it also needs
> CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_DEPRECATED but that's still enabled by
> default). I'm working on a patch for Mosquitto to depend on
> CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_PSK and CONFIG_OPENSSL_WITH_DEPRECATED.
> Would that be OK for you or do you still want the default for
> PSK to be 'y'?

Can people still do opkg install mosquitto-ssl? If they have to
recompile their own image, I think it's a no-go

Cheers,
Karl P
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