and perhaps you can share those 15 pages with the OpenSSL community.... after being on this list for a while, it seems that some straight forward references would be useful for a lot of newbies.
That would be great. Billy- Mike Schiffman wrote: >Hi. I'm writing a book on open source network security tools and I'm >covering a portion of OpenSSL and I have a few questions for those of >you who are "seasoned" OpenSSL users / developers. I'll ask them in >order of stupidity... ;) > >1) The evp(3) interface (all of the EVP_ functions) refers to an >"Envelope" interface, right? > >2) The "_ex" functions (such as EVP_CipherInit_ex(), >EVP_DigestInit_ex(), etc) appear to offer Engine arguments where >applicable. Is this the only tangible benefit? Is there any reason as >an application programmer using the default software engine to use these >_ex functions as opposed to the regular counterparts (which call the _ex >functions internally)? What is the "_ex" supposed to canonically refer >to? > >3) I will have this short 15 page chapter completed in a few days and I >would love to get someone from the OpenSSL project to give the once over >from a technical perspective (it shouldn't take more than an hour of >work for someone handy with the library). The chapter consists of an >overview of a few of the finer points of the library and some very short >sample code that needs another set of eyes. I can't offer any cash as >my publisher has not given me a budget for this, but I can get books for >the reviewer! If anyone has any remote interest in helping me out, >getting your name in my up and coming book, and getting some free books >(technical or otherwise) from the world's largest book publisher, Wiley >and Sons, please let me know ASAP! > > >-- >Mike Schiffman, CISSP >Director of Security Architecture >@stake, Inc >565 Commercial Street >San Francisco, CA 94111 >415.572.6014 > >______________________________________________________________________ >OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
