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From: Arne Schwabe <arne@...1227...>
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:38:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] openssl: be less verbose about cipher
 translation errors
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To: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>, Steffan Karger <steffan@...1856...>
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Am 08.10.15 um 08:43 schrieb Gert Doering:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:38:27PM +0200, Steffan Karger wrote:
>> Translation errors are usually not a real problem, since we don't maintain
>> the complete list of ciphers OpenSSL supports.  So, be less verbose if we
>> can not find a translation.
> 
> I wonder what the motivation on this one is.  If the user requests a 
> certain cipher, and we can't give it to him - shouldn't this be warned
> about quite prominently?
> 

The user request a cipher that exists, but is not our translation table.
Gets a confusion error message.

Arne