[openssl-dev] Missing API features

[Dr. Stephen Henson]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015, Richard Moore wrote:

> 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.
> 

I've just added a couple of SSL_CIPHER utility functions to the master branch
which handle the cipher and MAC. More to follow.

Steve.
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