On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Prashanth kumar N
<prashanth.kuma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff.. this is good idea... so are you going to start one?
No, this is something best left to the OpenSSL project. Otherwise,
you'll have a bunch of fractured documentation sprayed all over the
web.

Jeff

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ken Goldman <kgold...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> > On 3/27/2012 3:51 PM, Jakob Bohm wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 3/27/2012 9:37 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> You should really be using EVP instead of the low level routines.
>> >>> They are well documented with examples.
>> >>
>> >> Where, precisely?
>> >>
>> >> I didn't find it either when I was looking a few years ago, so I
>> >> settled on the obvious low level APIs too.
>> >
>> >
>> > In fact, neither the low level or the EVP APIs are documented.  I don't
>> > see
>> > any AES documentation at all.
>> Perhaps its time to bring up a wiki style documentation (again).
>>
>> Under wiki, users who get get frustrated enough about lack of/dated
>> documentation can spend some time copy/pasting code in between <pre>
>> tags.
>>
>> It would also relieve the docmaster from updating the current
>> documentation. He or she could approve wiki account requests instead.
>>
>> Wiki style documentation has worked well for other similar libraries,
>> such as OWASP ESAPI and Crypto++.
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