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  2. From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com>
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  14. Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:45:15 GMT
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  21.  
  22. those who know me have no need of my name wrote:
  23. > redhat is infamous for backporting patches, but since it's not the official
  24. > patch they don't bump the official version just their own package version,
  25. > which in some ways is good, but it makes for some confusion, which isn't
  26. > great especially when security errata is involved.  openssl-0.9.7a-20.2 is
  27. > redhat's current package and is supposed to cover the same errata as the
  28. > openssl project's 0.9.7d.
  29.  
  30. The problem is I don't know if a back port of the security patches would
  31. also include bug fixes which for example prevent OpenSSL from 
  32. negotiating SSLv3/TLSv1 with IBM's EDI servers.
  33.  
  34. So this does not necessarily help the end users