[openssl-dev] Plea for a new public OpenSSL RNG API
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com
Wed Aug 30 07:08:12 UTC 2017
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: openssl-dev [mailto:openssl-dev-bounces at openssl.org] Im Auftrag von Matt Caswell
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. August 2017 16:36
> An: openssl-dev at openssl.org
> Betreff: Re: [openssl-dev] Plea for a new public OpenSSL RNG API
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> On 29/08/17 15:02, Salz, Rich via openssl-dev wrote:
> >
> > dev asap. If there are problems with it we can always revert it before
> > it makes it into a release.
> >
> > Someone on the OMC called that “flip-flopping” and seemed to be against this kind of thing.
> >
> > If we are going to have an additional API, then we should at least see a draft of the header file first.
>
> Matthias, would you be willing to create such a draft as a github PR
> (marked as WIP for now)?
>
> Matt
Oh thanks, that's a great honor to be asked to do this. I will give it a thought. Currently, the RAND_add()/RAND_bytes() problem needs to fixed first, so it will take a little while.
Matthias
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