API renaming

[Richard Levitte]

A couple of points:

1.  Quite a while ago, we (the team at the time) made a decision to
    have all new APIs prefixed with 'OPENSSL_' or 'OSSL_'.  It seems
    that we never voted on it, though, but still.

2.  The new RAND API hasn't been merged yet, so it's not like we're
    renaming something that already exists.

So in terms of "it's just a prefix", OSSL_ would be just as suitable.
It's a bit more blatantly "OpenSSL", though.

Cheers,
Richard

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:30:25 +0200,
Tim Hudson wrote:
> Placing everything under EVP is reasonable in my view. It is just a prefix and it really has no
> meaning these days as it became nothing more than a common prefix to use.
> 
> I don't see any significant benefit in renaming at this point - even for RAND.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, 1:56 am Matt Caswell, <matt at openssl.org> wrote:
> 
>     On 23/07/2020 16:52, Richard Levitte wrote:
>     > On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:18:10 +0200,
>     > Dr Paul Dale wrote:
>     >> There has been a suggestion to rename EVP_RAND to OSSL_RAND.  This seems reasonable.  Would
>     it
>     >> also make sense to rename the other new APIs similarly.
>     >> More specifically, EVP_MAC and EVP_KDF to OSSL_MAC and OSSL_KDF respectively?
>     >
>     > This is a good question...
>     >
>     > Historically speaking, even though EVP_MAC and EVP_KDF are indeed new
>     > APIs, they have a previous history of EVP APIs, through EVP_PKEY.  The
>     > impact of relocating them outside of the EVP "family" may be small,
>     > but still, history gives me pause.
>     >
>     > RAND doesn't carry the same sort of history, which makes it much
>     > easier for me to think "just do it and get it over with"...
>    
>     I have the same pause - so  I'm thinking just RAND for now.
>    
>     Matt
> 
> 
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