openssl required install-time

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.install shellinabox on a brandnew minimum debian squeeze install
2.observe shellinabox not working (no ssl handshake); observe 0-sized pem-files 
in /var/lib/shellinabox
3.shellinabox does not work with very hard-to-diagnose errors in browsers

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- I expect a working connection. I get protocol not supported errors (warnings 
about old protocols used) in Opera, Chrome and Firefox. Even using openssl 
s_client to connect locally gave completely confusing error message.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- mentioned above; s-i-a-b 2.10.1 i386 deb

Please provide any additional information below.

THE SOLUTION: add openssl as a dependency for the deb package; you might also 
want to let dpkg-reconfigure detect empty certificate files and clobber them, 
because less savvy users will not ever 
(a) find them
(b) think to remove them before reinstalling

even if they figured out they needed openssl installed _before_ installing 
s-i-a-b

Cheers,
Seth

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sghee...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2010 at 10:53

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Patched for release 2.11.  The dependency on openssl is properly declared.

Original comment by beewoo...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2012 at 9:59

• Changed state: Fixed

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Issue 171 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by beewoo...@gmail.com on 5 Apr 2012 at 6:47