[EXTERNAL] Re: does Openssl 3.0 has backward compatiblity.

Tomas Mraz tomas at openssl.org
Thu Feb 10 11:06:10 UTC 2022


The returned value should be just passed to OSSL_PROVIDER_unload() when
you're no longer using the provider. 

Tomas

On Thu, 2022-02-10 at 11:03 +0000, Srinivas, Saketh (c) wrote:
> do you have an example how to set it. It seems the function returns
> OSSL_PROVIDER. what/where do i set this return value.
> 
> thanks,
> Saketh.
> From: Tomas Mraz <tomas at openssl.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 4:59 PM
> To: Srinivas, Saketh (c) <ssrinivas at rbbn.com>;
> openssl-users at openssl.org <openssl-users at openssl.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: does Openssl 3.0 has backward compatiblity. 
> The PKCS12 files use algorithms that are legacy, you need to load the
> legacy and default provider to be able to load them. You can do that
> either with configuration file (see man 5 config) or with
> OSSL_PROVIDER_load() calls.
> 
> Regards,
> Tomas
> 
> On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 11:11 +0000, Srinivas, Saketh (c) wrote:
> > Does openssl 3.0 supports the openssl 1.0 pkcs12 files. Is it
> > backward compatible. For me it giving error in PKCS12_parse
> > function. 
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Saketh.
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