[openssl-dev] [PATCH] Export ASN1 templates for DH and ECDH groups

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Jan 28 05:02:16 UTC 2015


On Tue 2015-01-27 11:15:37 -0500, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre wrote:
> Add missing forward declarations and export declarations for DHparams
> and EC[PK]PARAMETERS.
>
> Add public functions to convert between EC_GROUP objects and EC[PK]PARAMETERS
> objects: EC_GROUP_new_from_ec[pk]parameters(), EC_GROUP_get_ec[pk]parameters().

fwiw, the IETF TLS WG is moving away from the possibility of arbitrary
EC groups, and toward the requirement of specified and vetted EC
groups.  I'm not sure how much extra work should be done to maintain
that as a public-facing interface.

   --dkg


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