decoder memory-management question

[Richard Levitte]

Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org> writes:

> For all I know, a provider could just as well choose to place the key in
> an internal cache and pass the cache index in an "data" OSSL_PARAM
> (OSSL_OBJECT_PARAM_DATA), and have the keymgmt "load" function pick up
> that cache index through the reference argument.

Small detail, a cache index like that would still passed with
OSSL_OBJECT_PARAM_REFERENCE, as it's still, well, a reference, just not
a direct address to the key data.

Cheers,
Richard

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