Rodney Thayer wrote: > > At 09:29 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, S.Henson wrote: > >Is there some particular reason why such applications couldn't use the > >EVP layer? An attempt has been made to keep this consistent and to make > >any enhancements backwards compatible. In fact some of the more recent > >changes would have been substantially easier if EVP compatibility wasn't > >an issue. > > EVP is yet another opportunity to abuse OpenSSL by pretending it's > a crypto library. It doesn't do public key operations, and it doesn't > let you access the engines.
Indeed it doesn't allow public key operations. However my query was related to why application use low level symmetric cipher and digest routines instead of EVP. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/ Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior crypto engineer, Gemplus: http://www.gemplus.com/ Core developer of the OpenSSL project: http://www.openssl.org/ Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: via homepage. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
