Hi,
after having spent some of the last days playing around with openssl,
and trying to understand how to use it, I thought I'd record my
findings, so that I would not have to slog through sources again when
using openssl a few months later. I used ssl.pod as a starting point
and filled out the missing bits about functions that I used.
That resulted in a bit more than hundred lines more documentation,
with most of the often-used functions now documented. I'd like to
offer the patch against openssl-0.9.5a to you for inclusion in the
next version. You can get the patch at
<URL:https://pluto.tuwien.ac.at/~robbe/ssl.pod.diff.gz>.
You'll probably want to have someone more knowledgable than me in the
openssl innards[1] go over the new stuff, although I made an effort to
verify anything by testing it or looking at the sources. In a handful
of places, I put some notes in square brackets, where I was unsure
whether the functions were not really obsolete. (Square brackets do
not occur elsewhere in the document.)
I hope you find this useful. Please CC any comments here.
Footnotes:
[1] And maybe more knowledgable in the English language as well...
P.S.: Is the redirect from <URL:https://www.openssl.org/> to
<URL:https://www.engelschall.org/title/> intentional? It is at least a
bit confusing.
--
Robbe
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