Deprecations

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Fri Feb 21 23:18:08 UTC 2020


On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:00:10PM +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:
> 
> dhparam itself has been deprecated. For that reason we are not
> attempting to rewrite it to use non-deprecated APIs. The informed
> decision we have made about DH_check use in dhparam is to not build the
> whole application in a no-deprecated build:
> 
>   *) The command line utilities dhparam, dsa, gendsa and dsaparam have been
>      deprecated.  Instead use the pkeyparam, pkey, genpkey and pkeyparam
>      programs respectively.
>      [Paul Dale]

For some reason I seem to have missed various things.

But I think deprecating tools like dhparam, dsaparam in favour of
genpkey is something that we should reconsider.


Kurt



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