>>> Agreed. With the caveat that I *really* want libp11 and engine_pkcs11
>> > to die, and be replaced by native code in openssl/crypto/pkcs11/
>> 
>> Would you mind explaining what you mean by “native code” that presumably
>> could replace the current libp11, and who in your opinion would support
>>it?
>
>Really, I mean "code within OpenSSL itself". In an ideal world, that
>might actually *be* libp11, which is basically written as if it resides
>in openssl/crypto/pkcs11/ already — except for its licence (qv).

Ah, I understand. Yes, we’re in complete agreement here.

>So "die and be replaced by" would be the wrong wording for me to have
>used. I want libp11 to stop being a *separate* project.

:-)

>In fact, libp11 wasn't seeing a huge amount of development work before
>people started adding EC support to it, was it? Other than keeping it
>up to date with OpenSSL releases, of course...

Yep…

>I don't anticipate that it would be a large maintenance burden.

Michal would be the right person to comment on this, but I think I agree. 

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