[openssl-users] How to get a bye or word from BIGNUM in OpenSSL 1.1?

[Salz, Rich]

> It would be nice if the OpenSSL devs ate their own dogfood and suffered
> that inefficient crap. I would wager that crap would change.

There is a price to be paid with opaque structures.  In most cases the benefits are worth it.

I'm curious why you want that.  A small PR with doc and function should be easy enough.  Are you using BN as an extensible byte array?