Re: Current SVN fails to build / link on CentOS 5.5 (MD2)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:36:57PM -0700, alexandru wrote:
> I should also note that, by default, Nmap doesn't compile against a 'vanilla' installation of openssl-1, as new 
> versions are compiled without MD2 support by default. (hence the ./config enable-md2 line above).
>
> I see the Macports people have dealt with it by removing MD2 from Nmap:
>
>     patch: https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/25593/nse_openssl.cc.diff 
>     ticket: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/25593
>
> Seems like MD2 support should either be dropped from Nmap, offered as a config option, or an implementation should be 
> shipped with Nmap itself, otherwise users would need to recompile OpenSSL-1.x.x

I'm fine with ripping out support for MD2. That's part of Vlatko's
Android patch too. Does anyone have a reason to keep it? If it's not in
OpenSSL, it's not going to be in a lot of software for very long.

David Fifield
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