From: "Joseph J. Tardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

tardo> I've been playing with the ENGINE release on freebsd 3.2
tardo> attempting to add support for new hardware.

Cool!

tardo> I've noticed that dso needed some tweaking to load .so's
tardo> (DSO_DLFCN,  HAVE_DLFCN_H and friends not defined by config)
tardo> and that the speed timing isn't TOD (toy?) for freebsd. But
tardo> otherwise I'm finding the ENGINE changes quite useful.

Hmm?  I thought we had put in the TOD patch...  Anyway, if you have
patches to send us, please do.

tardo> I'm about ready to integrate with SSL & Apache and make the
tardo> hardware acceleration actually do soemthing. But I am
tardo> wondering, will ENGINE "automagically" work if it finds the .so
tardo> and hardware and "method search" the ENGINE chain, or do I need
tardo> additional tweaks someplace, analogous to the "-engine" switch
tardo> in speed, to enable particular hardware?

The way it's ment to be is declarative, which means you will have to
tell OpenSSL that you want to use an engine, and which one.  So yes,
you will need to do some "tweaks" :-).

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