On Mon, 2022-12-05 at 16:14 -0800, Benjamin Kaduk via openssl-users
wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 11:31:18AM -0800, Thomas Dwyer III wrote:
> > Why does EVP_get_digestbyname("md4") return non-NULL if the legacy
> > provider
> > isn't loaded? Similarly, why does it return non-NULL for "md5"
> >
On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 11:31:18AM -0800, Thomas Dwyer III wrote:
> Why does EVP_get_digestbyname("md4") return non-NULL if the legacy provider
> isn't loaded? Similarly, why does it return non-NULL for "md5" after doing
> EVP_set_default_properties(NULL, "fips=yes")? This seems unintuitive.
Why does EVP_get_digestbyname("md4") return non-NULL if the legacy
provider isn't loaded? Similarly, why does it return non-NULL for "md5"
after doing EVP_set_default_properties(NULL, "fips=yes")? This seems
unintuitive. Legacy code that does not know about EVP_MD_fetch() checks
the return
