[openssl-dev] Plea for a new public OpenSSL RNG API

[Richard Levitte]

In message <168CEF3C-D655-47BF-9874-048308154AFD at ll.mit.edu> on Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:04:48 +0000, "Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL" <uri at ll.mit.edu> said:

uri>     uri> Could you please be more specific wrt. DRBG organization that in your opinion could impact the UI? 
uri>     
uri>     Are you talking about the UI API or something else?
uri>     
uri> No-no-no, just the UI API. 
uri> 
uri> I used the term “UI” to emphasize that this is the “public” part of the API, exposed to the user, expected to be called by the user, and (probably) designed to be stable for some (hopefully considerable) time.

Ah, ok.  In an OpenSSL context, this gets a bit confusing since there
is an API called UI ( <openssl/ui.h> ).

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
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