Commit 679df234 authored by Lutz Jänicke's avatar Lutz Jänicke
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What is an '-engine' version?

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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ OpenSSL - Frequently Asked Questions
* How can I contact the OpenSSL developers?
* Where can I get a compiled version of OpenSSL?
* Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' used?
* What is an 'engine' release?

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@@ -121,6 +122,12 @@ A number of Linux and *BSD distributions include OpenSSL.
autoconf will probably be used in future OpenSSL versions. If it was
less Unix-centric, it might have been used much earlier.

* What is an '-engine' version?

With version 0.9.6 OpenSSL was extended to interface to external crypto
hardware. This was realized in a special release '0.9.6-engine'. With
version 0.9.7 the changes were merged into the main development line,
so that the special release is no longer necessary.

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