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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: edk2-devel-01 <edk2-devel@ml01.01.org>
Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Ting Ye <ting.ye@intel.com>,
	Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>,
	Jiaxin Wu <jiaxin.wu@intel.com>, Gary Lin <glin@suse.com>,
	Qin Long <qin.long@intel.com>, Tomas Hoger <thoger@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [URGENT-ish PATCH 0/5] ArmVirt- Nt32- Ovmf- CryptoPkg: conditionalize libssl presence in OpensslLib
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:09:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0f09820-7794-3a5c-2834-2cc6ee0bc1ee@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170223215744.7293-1-lersek@redhat.com>

On 02/23/17 22:57, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> In commit 32387e0081db ("CryptoPkg: Enable ssl build in OpensslLib
> directly", 2016-12-14), we enabled libssl functionality in
> CryptoPkg/OpensslLib unconditionally.
> 
> While that's real convenient, it is also overkill for platforms (or
> platform builds) that don't want TLS. The impact (beyond wasted build
> time) is that when the next vulnerability comes out that affects the
> libssl subset of OpenSSL, security teams all around will look at build
> logs and INF files, see the libssl files being built, and get nervous --
> without a good reason for such builds that don't actually *use* TLS.
> 
> Let's make this easier on them (and thereby on ourselves!), and
> introduce an OpensslLibNoSsl instance, which excludes libssl.

Public repo and branch:
https://github.com/lersek/edk2.git conditionalize-ssl



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-23 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-23 21:57 [URGENT-ish PATCH 0/5] ArmVirt- Nt32- Ovmf- CryptoPkg: conditionalize libssl presence in OpensslLib Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-23 21:57 ` [PATCH 1/5] CryptoPkg/OpensslLib: refresh OpensslLib.inf, opensslconf.h after 32387e00 Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-23 21:57 ` [PATCH 2/5] CryptoPkg/OpensslLib: introduce OpensslLibNoSsl instance Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-23 21:57 ` [PATCH 3/5] ArmVirtPkg: resolve OpensslLib to OpensslLibNoSsl Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-23 22:26   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-23 21:57 ` [PATCH 4/5] Nt32Pkg: exclude libssl functionality from OpensslLib if TLS_ENABLE=FALSE Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-24  4:09   ` Ni, Ruiyu
     [not found]     ` <895558F6EA4E3B41AC93A00D163B72741629D991@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2017-02-24  9:46       ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-23 21:57 ` [PATCH 5/5] OvmfPkg: " Laszlo Ersek
2017-02-24  6:15   ` Gary Lin
2017-02-23 22:09 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2017-02-23 22:25 ` [URGENT-ish PATCH 0/5] ArmVirt- Nt32- Ovmf- CryptoPkg: conditionalize libssl presence in OpensslLib Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-24  3:32   ` Long, Qin

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