On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:01:13PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>>>> Obtain lock CRYPTO_LOCK_RSA before creating BN_MONT_CTX
>>>> structures and setting rsa->_method_mod_{n,p,q}.
>>> Is it really a good idea to put this into the stable branch?
>> In the later version (where locks are only held during the actual
>> assignment), yes.
> Since there's a discussion about the pros and cons of this, I'm not
> completely sure that was a good idea. Oh well, we'll see...
With respect to the other code in OpenSSL_0_9_6-stable, rsa_eay.c was
obviously buggy; it's as simple as that. Of course we can still
decide that we don't want to allow sharing of RSA structures between
threads and rewrite the SSL library accordingly, but *some* fix was
needed.
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