Nicolas Roumiantzeff wrote:
>
> >What you normally do is this...
> >EVP_PKEY *key;
> >/* X509 *cert from somewhere */
> >key = X509_get_pubkey(x509);
> >/* various operations */
> >X509_free(x509);
> >EVP_PKEY_free(key);
>
> In my case:
> After "X509_free(x509);" the "key" pointer is freed.
> So "EVP_PKEY_free(key);" would crash.
> Am I missing something here?
>
The reference count is upped in X509_get_pubkey() so it is just
decremented by X509_free() and EVP_PKEY_free() actually frees it up.
If I recall this behaviour was first added in OpenSSL 0.9.2.
Steve.
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