[openssl-dev] Feedback on BIO API changes in 1.1

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Mon Jun 27 20:59:28 UTC 2016


> > That sounds like a bug we need to fix.  Perhaps something like
> > 	int BIO_meth_new_index([int flags?])


> But I think even just some advice on _how_ to pick a value here would be
> sufficient. As long as the space is sufficiently sparse, picking a static value
> with reasonably low probability of colliding with anything else would be good
> enough for me.

Hm, perhaps like the ENGINE commands we add a few values for BIO_APP_TYPE1, etc?

> I did. I also saw that exactly no code in OpenSSL itself uses this API.

Yeah, RHIP :)


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