On Thu, Jan 26, 2006, Joe Gluck wrote: > That is great to know because I did not know if while loading the > certiicate it parses the fields and hashes or just loads it. >
It parses most fields. The public key and extension parts aren't parsed until a call is explicitly made to parse them. > But any way, if I call the X509_cmp() it will do the > X509_check_purpose() and I would like to avoid that by just getting > the public key part and doing memcmp on it with the one already in my > cache. > X509_check_purpose() with those parameters just checks to see if the hash (and other things) is valid, if not calculating it and then returns. So after that first call it is a no op. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
