[Dovecot] 1.0 beta1 testing

Lorens dovecot.fdop at tagged.lorens.org
Mon Jan 16 12:30:34 EET 2006


On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:10:09AM +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > If this becomes a real problem, I suppose I could include pregenerated
> > DH parameters that are used until the generation completes for the first
> > time..
...
> If a pregenerated file is not a security issue, it would be good to
> install it, I think. Otherwise it would be better to include such a
> parameter file, but not install it by default, so people can decide by
> themselves and nobody
> gets surprised (and the security people will also be happy).

I think the best way (the usual way?) is to generate the files
through the install script. That way you get unique files and
you don't get surprised by the length of the task. Generalize to
default self-signed certificates, etc.



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