Whomever,
 
I have a couple of OpenSSL platform questions.  
Was OpenSSL designed to run on an EBCDIC platform?
Are there specific generation options required for generating OpenSSL for a EBCDIC platform?
 
If  there are specific generation options can someone be kind enough to give me a detailed list of the options and their values.
 
Our organization would like to run EBCDIC applications using OpenSSL on a mainframe.   Certificates passed to various OpenSSL functions would be ASCII, i.e. the certificates will be  stored as ASCII pem files on the mainframe, but the OpenSSL code would be compiled in EBCDIC mode.  We have encountered problems where certificate content checking is done using EBCDIC literals against certificate data that is in ASCII and it obviously fails.  
 
We have tried converting the ASCII pem files to EBCDIC but had no success, not unexpectedly considering the pem file  is encoded.
 
I appreciate any feedback. 
 
Ken Torri            

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