OpenSSL Project wrote:
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>
> o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
> structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
> for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
> use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
> is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
> an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
> don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
> use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
> RC2 to adapt).
I have started working on a complete overhaul of the EVP system as I
need to
do this for the inclusion of PKCS-11 support. How do I sync that with
the rest
of the project?
I would not like to put this in CVS at the moment as it neither compiles
nor
is in any state other than a mess at the moment. I dug my way through
the
asymetric ciphers by now an will tacle the symetric ones next.
mfg lutz
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