Deprecations

Dr Paul Dale paul.dale at oracle.com
Fri Feb 28 23:43:11 UTC 2020


Any suggestions for a consensus on this thread?

Pauli
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Dr Paul Dale | Distinguished Architect | Cryptographic Foundations 
Phone +61 7 3031 7217
Oracle Australia




> On 24 Feb 2020, at 5:08 pm, Dr Paul Dale <paul.dale at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Most of the conversions to using PKEY were straightforward.  One didn’t require any changes (dsa but my memory is suspect).  One seemed quite difficult.  Some I didn’t check.
> 
> Modifying the commands so that they continue to work and print (to stderr) an alternative pkey based command might be workable too.
> 
> 
> Pauli
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> Dr Paul Dale | Distinguished Architect | Cryptographic Foundations 
> Phone +61 7 3031 7217
> Oracle Australia
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 24 Feb 2020, at 5:53 am, Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-users at dukhovni.org <mailto:openssl-users at dukhovni.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 22, 2020, at 4:53 AM, Richard Levitte <levitte at openssl.org <mailto:levitte at openssl.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Something that could be done is to take all those aged commands and
>>> rewrite them as wrappers for genpkey, pkey and pkeyutl.  Simply create
>>> and populate a new argv and call genpkey_main(), pkey_main() or
>>> pkeyutl_main().
>> 
>> Agreed, that sounds quite reasonable at first blush, and could be fantastic
>> if it can be made to work (no immediate obstacles come to mind).
>> 
>> -- 
>> 	Viktor.
>> 
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