Bug 61875

Summary:	hardware accelerator should fall-back to software if not present
Product:	[Retired] Stronghold Cross Platform	Reporter:	Need Real Name <mtsan>
Component:	openssl	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Stronghold Engineering List <stronghold-eng-list>
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Version:	4.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Need Real Name 2002-03-25 14:07:13 UTC

Description of Problem:
When the SSLCryptoDevice (or StrongholdAccelerator) directive is used in 
httpd.conf but the hardware accelerator is not present, httpd does not start.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
N/A

How Reproducible:
Easily.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set SSLCryptoDevice (or StrongholdAccelerator) in httpd.conf on a system 
without a hardware accelerator.
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
httpd does not start.

Expected Results:
httpd starts without using hardware accelerator.

Additional Information:
Enhancement requested by Ergon Informatik (Switzerland). There is no mod_ssl 
component listed in the component input box so I chose openssl instead.

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2002-03-25 14:27:51 UTC

Possibly this should be a separate config directive, e.g.

   SSLSoftwareFallback On

Some people might prefer it to be a fatal error if the crypto device doesn't
work, rather than silently failing (and their web server suddenly becoming slow).

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2002-03-25 14:32:33 UTC

i'd be okay with letting it fall-back by default and just placing a large warning
in the error log.  I suspect a company would prefer to have their webserver come
back up slow than not at all after a midnight Saturday reboot.

Comment 3 Joe Orton 2006-09-05 14:06:26 UTC

Stronghold 4.0 Cross Platform reached End of Life as of the end of December 2005.

For more information or further options see: 

http://www.redhat.com/software/stronghold/