mixmaster> The new dso stuff looks like a general purpose portable
mixmaster> interface to shared libraries. If that is really all it is
mixmaster> then there's no real connection to OpenSSL at all and it
mixmaster> seems like it should be a library on it's own, outside
mixmaster> OpenSSL.
That is correct... so far.
mixmaster> What am I missing?
That DSO is going to be used as a general purpose "plugin" loader,
primarly to load interfaces to diverse hardware cipherboxes, from
within OpenSSL.
Let's face it, there are a whole bunch of things like that in OpenSSL
that are not really connected in any way to OpenSSL, except for being
used by the rest of OpenSSL. A couple of examples are lhash and conf.
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