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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 23, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Matt Caswell <<a href="mailto:matt@openssl.org" class="">matt@openssl.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 23/07/2020 16:52, Richard Levitte wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:18:10 +0200,<br class="">Dr Paul Dale wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There has been a suggestion to rename EVP_RAND to OSSL_RAND. This seems reasonable. Would it<br class="">also make sense to rename the other new APIs similarly.<br class="">More specifically, EVP_MAC and EVP_KDF to OSSL_MAC and OSSL_KDF respectively?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This is a good question...<br class=""><br class="">Historically speaking, even though EVP_MAC and EVP_KDF are indeed new<br class="">APIs, they have a previous history of EVP APIs, through EVP_PKEY. The<br class="">impact of relocating them outside of the EVP "family" may be small,<br class="">but still, history gives me pause.<br class=""><br class="">RAND doesn't carry the same sort of history, which makes it much<br class="">easier for me to think "just do it and get it over with"...<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I have the same pause - so I'm thinking just RAND for now.<br class=""><br class="">Matt<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>