At 10:26 09.06.99 +0100, you wrote:
>Dr Stephen Henson wrote:
>> 
>I think 3 is too disgusting to contemplate. 1 is OK with me: we
>regularly break all existing code, anyway (speaking of which, I tried to
>get demos/selfsign.c going the other day, but X509v3 support has changed
>so drastically I couldn't easily figure out how!). If you are concerned
>about existing code, then I'd vote for 2, but I'm not hugely keen on the
>precedent or the bloat.
>
>The other possibility I can think of is to add an "extra data" pointer
>to EVP_PKEY instead.

But this way you couldn't do
PKey = PEM_read_PrivateKey(fp,NULL,cb)
and let PEM_read_PrivateKey() handle the allocation for you

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