In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:07:20 +0200, "Dr. Stephen 
Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

steve> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
steve> 
steve> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:32:54PM +0000, Paolo Serra wrote:
steve> > > crytpo/objects/obj_dat.num
steve> > > crypto/objects/objects.txt
steve> > 
steve> > Did you modify these two files to give your new ciphers names/ids?  In
steve> > 0.9.7d the numbers run sequentially and the last number is ms_upn == 649.
steve> > Just pick some numbers for yours, e.g., I have,
steve> > 
steve> >   aes_128_ctr128          900
steve> >   aes_192_ctr128          901
steve> >   aes_256_ctr128          902
steve> > 
steve> > (So please don't choose those numbers for your AES-CCM. ;-)
steve> > 
steve> > Speaking of which, who's playing IANA for OpenSSL? At the least, we should
steve> > decide on a range of "private" numbers a la RFC 1918. 
steve> > 
steve> 
steve> That isn't advisable. You should instead dynamically create some NIDs using
steve> OBJ_create() preferably using the registered OID value for the algorithm.

Uhmm, Steve, he's talking about adding code to OpenSSL, and if I
understand correctly, he will send a patch to us when it's done.  In
such a case, I disagree with you, and think he should make additions
to crypto/objects/objects.txt.

Cheers,
Richard

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