API renaming

Tomas Mraz tm at t8m.info
Fri Jul 24 17:10:59 UTC 2020


It was backported to Fedora and RHEL openssl packages. But of course that's our problem and is not a blocker for the rename.

On the other hand KDFs and MACs being a class of algorithms similarly to ciphers and digests gives some argument why to keep the EVP prefix.

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24. 7. 2020 9:46, 9:46, SHANE LONTIS <shane.lontis at oracle.com> napsal/a:
>As @levitte pointed out - it was not back ported (not sure why I
>thought it was) 
>
>> On 24 Jul 2020, at 5:40 pm, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
><Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com> wrote:
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>> > I think the KDF and MAC got back ported also...
>>  
>> In this case it would be no question that we should keep the names
>EVP_KDF and EVP_MAC.
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