Re: Clarification questions on OpenSSL thread-safe support

2008-03-11 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:23 -0600, Bryan Sutula wrote: My questions: 1. What I understand from this is that OpenSSL can be thread safe. In order for it to be safely used in multi-threaded applications, it needs: A. to be built with multi-threaded versions of

Clarification questions on OpenSSL thread-safe support

2008-03-10 Thread Bryan Sutula
After studying the OpenSSL threads(3) man page: http://openssl.org/docs/crypto/threads.html and the FAQ: http://openssl.org/support/faq.html#PROG1 I'm still a bit confused about what's needed when using OpenSSL in a threaded environment. Most of the confusion results from the statements