[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4280] OpenSSL 1.1.0 pre 2: feature request: ECDSA_SIG_set0(const ECDSA_SIG*, BIGNUM *, BIGNUM *) is needed

[Stephen Henson via RT]

On Fri Jan 29 17:59:59 2016, aleksey at aleksey.com wrote:
>
> Do you have plan to change the behavior of DSA_SIG_new() as well
> to pre-create r and s? Currently both are NULL.
>

That seems like a reasonable change. In 1.0.x we can't do that because it would
result in compatibility issues. For 1.1.0 DSA_SIG will be made opaque at some
point and a DSA_SIG_get0() function will be added and pre-allocating r and s
simplifies the code.

Steve.
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