Sounds like a good idea, but a lot of work. It also might need a discussion area (layer) where people thrash it out before some volunteer edits it over to the main area (and people comment again?)
I have some questions but not answers, and would be happy to work on them one at a time. I would expect the WIKI to have a GPL licence on itself, and free-for-any-use on the snippets, techniques, code, in it. Being download-able as a single tgz would help people offline. To add to your list of linked resources: http://www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples/ (and also part1.pdf) www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples/part2.pdf (I dont have his book, it might be really good) Also as a project, (if you have volunteers), going through each of the DEMOs in the openssl source tarball. and reworking them might provide some skeleton frameworks where intelligent questions can be placed. If all the demos had second versions with links to the FAQ, (and some magic overlinked HTML code viewer), each demo could add its own "here is where we tell the server to tell the client which certificate to present." LINK which by way of accumulation tellsus, "the only _EASY_ way _CURRENTLY_ to get this list is to read a file containing several PEM certs, ...etc..." Then from some point in a demo, find all the corresponding points in other demos. Plus maybe hints on what to google for (other projects with code that uses openssl) Question for the FAQ: when are X509 certificates deleted? The do not seem to have a reference count. If I pass a cert to a function, does it 'own' the X509* or me? How can they be copied to be absolutely certain? Graham lists_AT_information-cascade.co.uk On 16 February 2010 19:00, Adam Grossman <adam.gross...@devitron.com> wrote: > hello. > > i have found the people on this list exceptionally helpful and > knowledgeable (i feel like i owe some of you a cut from the project i am > working on). There seems to be a lot of information on the mailing > lists, but nothing really in one place. Has anyone thought of creating > an openssl FAQ or an openssl "cookbook" based on the information in the > mailing list? i would love to see when certain questions are answered > the question and final answer is placed somewhere. Kind of like the C++ > FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C++-faq/). > > i would be more than happy to donate the bandwidth to host a wiki or > anything like that. > > openssl is pretty powerful, but the lack of documentation can make it > rather daunting when you are first learning, or if you need to deviate > from what the sample code you get is doing. > > thank you, > -=- adam grossman > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-us...@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
