[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#698447: Bug#698447:

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:53:13PM -0500, Adam Langley wrote:
> Bodo Moeller (from the OpenSSL core team, bodo AT openssl DOT org) has
> this to say when I asked him about this:
> 
>  "The main (or maybe only) reason this is not enabled automatically is
> that the OpenSSL configure script is not clever enough to detect
> whether the compiler supports __uint128_t. If you can use this code,
> it is superior to the default in multiple regards (speed, and also
> security as the new implementations are secure against timing
> attacks)."

I already looked at it and decided to enable it for *-amd64.  I
just wish I knew about this earlier.


Kurt