Deprecating misleading GOST names

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Dear Hubert,

Done:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/11440

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 6:27 PM Hubert Kario <hkario at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 20 March 2020 13:17:48 CET, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I came across wrong naming for some GOST-related stuff in object.txt. As
> > all this stuff was introduced by me, it's a separate problem.
> >
> > First, I've erroneously translated the name of the Russian "Кузнечик"
> > algorithm as "grasshopper" instead of transliterating it as 'kuznyechik".
> > The transliteration has appeared as an official after the changes were
> > accepted into openssl.
> >
> > Second, some other algorithm and parameter names were introduced with
> their
> > official names instead of reasonable short names. When they are used in
> the
> > command line applications, it's very inconvenient.
> >
> > I'd like to fix these issues in the upcoming 3.0 release, so any ideas
> > about how to deal with it are welcome. Some of this stuff can be fixed on
> > the engine level, but it's better to avoid misleading naming.
>
> how about introducing the new names as aliases and keeping the old ones
> active?
>
> (maybe with exception of "kuznyechik", but still support both at the same
> time)
> --
> Regards,
> Hubert Kario
> Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
> Web: www.cz.redhat.com
> Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 115, 612 00  Brno, Czech Republic
>
>

-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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