EVP_CIPHER_CTX_FLAG_WRAP_ALLOW

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Hello,

I'm trying to implement the new Russian GOST CMS specification. It uses the
key wrap algorithm described here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smyshlyaev-tls12-gost-suites-06#section-8.2

I've implemented the algorithm as a cipher with the EVP_CIPH_WRAP_MODE flag.

It seems to me that the only way to avoid clearing the
EVP_CIPHER_CTX_FLAG_WRAP_ALLOW flag in the EVP_CipherInit function is
providing the ctrl function in the corresponding EVP_CIPHER object because
the EVP_CipherInit function resets the passed EVP_CIPHER_CTX object.

The EVP_CipherInit_ex does not reset the EVP_CIPHER_CTX object and
theEVP_CIPHER_CTX_FLAG_WRAP_ALLOW stays untouched, so the behavior seems a
bit controversial (and undocumented, at least for the 1.1.1 branch).

Is this difference a desired one or an accidental one? Should it be
documented or fixed?

-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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