Re: Entrust SDK issue

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 12/06/03


Date: 05 Dec 2003 19:52:04 -0800

Henrick Hellström <henrick.hellstrm@telia.com> writes:
> > I don't remember OpenSSL ever being advertised as thread safe.
>
> Neither do I, to be honest, but I work in a programming environment
> where thread safety is considered to be the norm and not the exception.

Actually, Apache 2.0 is multi-threaded and uses OpenSSL, so OpenSSL must
at least attempt to be thread safe. Whether there's bugs, I don't know.
I continue to run Apache 1.3 which is single threaded (pre-forking).



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