[openssl-dev] Missing API features

Richard Moore richmoore44 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 12:02:29 UTC 2015


On 21 April 2015 at 12:50, Dr. Stephen Henson <steve at openssl.org> wrote:

> I think what would be useful here would be an API that can determine
> appropriate characterictics of an SSL_CIPHER. For example a NID
> corresponding to the key exchange algorithm, signer, cipher and MAC. We
> have
> to find this stuff out internally but there is no exposed API to do this.
>
> Enough for an application to write its own version of
> SSL_CIPHER_description
> for example.
>

Yes, that would be ideal.

Rich.
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