On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Michael Reynolds wrote:

> Ok, I'll assume this is a "RTFM" type mailing list

Nah, this is a anything-that-involves-curl type mailing list! ;-)

> 1) as I have already mentioned, I am on a Virtual Server from iServer and
> therefore do not have root access to system-level files.

Well, you actually don't need to have root to install openssl. You can always
do it locally in your home directory or similar.

Then of course, I have no clue what "a Virtual Server from iServer" is.

> 2) this URL: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/openssl.html did not help me
> (perhaps I'm blind?)

It tells you that your default FreeBSD OpenSSL installation is inadequate.

> 3) I searched for rsaref and found it but it contained instructions which
> I found cryptic. I tried compiling it and did not know what to do with it
> after that.

To be honest, I've never had any problems with building OpenSSL (as far as I
can recall at least) - including every single protocol and crypto it
includes.

However, I suggest you scan the openssl site for docs, check out the FAQ
and/or try to find a FreeBSD guy that can explain the right moves (since the
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/openssl.html site explains the source code is
already there for you, just not compiled and built).

This really isn't a curl issue.

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/