[SSL Observatory] Amazon EC2 instance - openssl package missing?

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Tue Jun 28 14:11:57 PDT 2011


You do not need to install the patched openssl unless you're importing the raw
.results files (ie, making a new version of the mysql database).  If you just
want to run queries, you'll be fine without it.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 03:53:19PM -0500, Walter Goulet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The HOWTO for Amazon EC2 setup worked great; I was able to get the data
> loaded into my VMI in under 30 minutes start to finish. The setup script
> referred to an openssl package that does not appear to be loaded on the ebs
> snapshot (/space/misc/openssl_0.9.8o-4_amd64.deb). If I don't have that
> package installed, will it break anything? Since I'm interested mainly in
> parsing the database data I'd imagine not, but wanted to check.
> 
> Thanks,
> Walter

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