[openssl-dev] Openssl 1.1 port - hash state serializing

[Matt Caswell]

On 28/11/16 20:16, Ken Goldman wrote:
> There was no answer on the 'users' list, so this is perhaps now a
> feature request.

Please raise feature requests as issues on Github.

Matt

> 
> Is there a possibility of getting this function?
> 
> ~~
> 
> I have a simulation of a hardware device that has the following
> characteristics:
> 
> - does hashing functions
> - resource constrained
> - multi-user
> 
> Therefore, a typical pattern is that one application starts a digest
> calculation, then the hash state must get swapped out for another user.
> 
> In 1.0, I did this by (cheating) serializing the hash state to swap out,
> than deserializing to swap back in.  This required looking inside the
> hash state structure.  I know it wasn't portable across versions, but
> the structure was pretty stable.
> 
> Is there a way to do this in 1.1?  Can one be added?
>