[clamav-users] clamav-users Digest, Vol 113, Issue 18

[Paul Kosinski]

The blog post concerning OpenSSL being required for ClamAV only has
one reason as to why it might *benefit* ClamAV, the other reasons are
why OpenSSL *itself* in good.

That single reason is:

  "We will be able to provide a better freshclam experience in a
  future release."

What exactly does this mean? (The phrase "freshclam experience" is
marketing speak, not a technical explanation.)

Since adding complexity to a system tends to increase bugs and
decrease security, I am leery of seeing ClamAV become even more
complicated than it already has become.

Paul




On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:00:00 -0500
clamav-users-request at lists.clamav.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:08:03 +0000
> From: "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler at cisco.com>
> To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>,
> 	"clamav-devel at lists.clamav.net"
> <clamav-devel at lists.clamav.net> Subject: [clamav-users] Introducing
> OpenSSL as a dependency to ClamAV Message-ID:
> <78E5F452-24F0-4E9D-91AA-5918E42419AC at cisco.com> Content-Type:
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> 
> On Friday last week I put a blog post up about introducing OpenSSL
> into the ClamAV ecosystem.  I wanted to make sure everyone saw it,
> so please have a look at the blog post here:
> 
> http://blog.clamav.net/2014/02/introducing-openssl-as-dependency-to.html
> 
> --
> Joel Esler | Threat Intelligence Team Lead | Open Source Manager |
> Vulnerability Research Team