On Sun, Oct 17, 2004, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:32:54PM +0000, Paolo Serra wrote:
> > crytpo/objects/obj_dat.num
> > crypto/objects/objects.txt
> 
> Did you modify these two files to give your new ciphers names/ids?  In
> 0.9.7d the numbers run sequentially and the last number is ms_upn == 649.
> Just pick some numbers for yours, e.g., I have,
> 
>   aes_128_ctr128          900
>   aes_192_ctr128          901
>   aes_256_ctr128          902
> 
> (So please don't choose those numbers for your AES-CCM. ;-)
> 
> Speaking of which, who's playing IANA for OpenSSL? At the least, we should
> decide on a range of "private" numbers a la RFC 1918. 
> 

That isn't advisable. You should instead dynamically create some NIDs using
OBJ_create() preferably using the registered OID value for the algorithm.

Steve.
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