topic Re: HP SSL in Operating System - OpenVMS

HP SSL

HDS — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:54:28 GMT

We need to open a SSL connection to a remote server from our C/Fortran code running on OpenVMS V7.3-2 / TCPIP V5.4 ECO 5. Does that capability exist short of installing HP's OpenSSL port?

Many thanks,
Howard

Re: HP SSL

Steven Schweda — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:25:27 GMT

I believe that the normal OpenSSL kit from
http://www.openssl.org/source/
will work. I've installed both the HP kit
and OpenSSL 0.9.7e. I believe that I've used
both successfully with wget, but it's been a
while since I tried it both ways.

OpenSSL seems to be at version 0.9.8e now,
which would seem to be newer than the HP kit,
but building and installing it are more work
than installing the HP kit. HP supplies
shareable images, OpenSSL supplies object
libraries, so the LINK command (or option
file) looks different.

I haven't tried the 0.9.8e kit, but it, too,
seems to have INSTALL.VMS, MAKEVMS.COM, and a
[.vms] directory, so what could go wrong?

Re: HP SSL

Steven Schweda — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:51:54 GMT

Well, other than:

[...]
Compiling The PRIME.C File.
%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
\APP_FILES\
%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
\APP_FILES\

Building OpenSSL [.AXP.EXE.ENGINES] Engines.
[...],
that is.

[...OPENSSL-0_9_8E.APPS]MAKEAPPS.COM
apparently expects, but does not define, the
symbol APP_FILES. It was there in 0.9.7e,
where [.AXP.EXE.APPS]OPENSSL.EXE got built.