From f36d4bb460c50981507e5bb5a8e566fd23f1f2fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Godschalk Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:23:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add notice about ECC/ECDHE in OpenSSL. --- README.FIRST | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.FIRST b/README.FIRST index 8c23c45f4..ca6e5fcdc 100644 --- a/README.FIRST +++ b/README.FIRST @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ Feature Specific Requirements: - For encrypted oper and (optional) server passwords, a working DES, MD5, or SHA library implementing crypt(). + +- For ECDHE, OpenSSL 1.0.0 or newer is required. RHEL/Fedora and derivatives like CentOS + will need to compile OpenSSL from source, as ECC/ECDHE-functionality is removed from + the OpenSSL package in these distributions. *******************************************************************************