Eudora will not perform SSL negotiation with OpenSSL

ISSUE:

Eudora will not perform SSL negotiation with OpenSSL

RESOLUTION:

This is not an issue that can be addressed in Eudora. Eudora relies on the Certicom SSL Plus Libraries to perform SSL negotiation and it is in fact the libraries themselves that are the source of the issue.

With OpenSSL0.9.6c the OpenSSL developers added in "CBC countermeasures", which when implemented, Eudora and other applications that rely on the Certicom SSL Plus libraries have issues connecting to.

With OpenSSL0.9.6d (or later) the OpenSSL developers have put an option in OpenSSL to disable the CBC Countermeasure. These countermeasures must be disabled in order to allow Eudora to successfully negotiate an SSL connection.

KEYWORDS: EPWIN, SSL, OPENSSL, AUTH, CERTICOM, CBC, COUNTERMEASURES, LIBRARIES