[openssl-dev] A new openssl engine

[Alexander Gostrer]

Thank you, Matt, Viktor,

I very like "clearly written, sensibly commented and well documented"
code:) It will be not a problem:) But if you are going to retire existing
engines then looks like I have no choice.

Thank you,
Alex.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-users at dukhovni.org
> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 04:34:34PM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote:
>
> > Whether such a patch would be accepted though is an entirely different
> > thing. Personally I would prefer new engines to be maintained outside of
> > the OpenSSL tree. Inclusion in the OpenSSL tree implies that the OpenSSL
> > dev team will support the code. That becomes very difficult/impossible
> > if we do not have access to the hardware.
>
> In addition, in order to not dig the hole we're in deeper, the
> contributed code would have to be high quality code.  That is,
> clearly written, sensibly commented and well documented.
>
> All in all, it seems unlikely that new engines will become part of
> the OpenSSL official distribution.  If anything, some existing
> engines are likely to be retired.
>
> --
>         Viktor.
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