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Subject: Re: [URGENT-ish PATCH 0/5] ArmVirt- Nt32- Ovmf- CryptoPkg: conditionalize libssl presence in OpensslLib
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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