On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Nelson B Bolyard <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote: > > I'd say the interfaces to those functions (more precisely, their > signatures) are quite frozen. The mp_int bignum package API is so > frozen as to have become something of a standard of its own. There > are now at least 3 different implementations known to me that are all > API compatible, differing only in the content of the (opaque) mp_int > structure itself. > > Speaking only for myself, I have no objection to offering the mp_int > bignum API as a "public" API out of freebl3. They're not presently > exported from the freebl shared lib at all, but IMO, they could be. > We merely wanted to minimize the exported API.
We also need to undo some processor-version-specific type definitions. An example is the mp_digit type for 64-bit Solaris SPARC. mp_digit is defined differently for different versions of the SPARC v9a processors: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/security/nss/lib/freebl/Makefile&rev=1.115&mark=420-432#420 Wan-Teh -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
