2012/8/17 Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012, Felipe Blauth wrote: > > > I see. I've digged a little bit more in the built-in engines and found > out > > that this is the way some of them are implemented. I guess there's no way > > to to the same for ECDSA_METHOD tough, since there's no finish function > > pointer on that... > > > > There is a way to attach data to an EC_KEY structure which differs from the > normal ex_data methods. Data is attached on a per key basis (as opposed to > globally for ex_data) and once cleaned up the function pointers are no > longer > referenced. > > See functions like EC_KEY_insert_key_method_data. >
Hey, that worked =). I was going to make a custom command to clean a linked list I was creating, but this way is much better for seamless integration. Thanks a lot, that fixed things up. > > > By the way, I took a look at the gost engine, which uses EVP_PKEY_METHOD. > > Is it possible to achieve the behaviour I'm looking for only using the > EVP > > interface. Better explaining, I want to implement RSA and ECDSA signing > and > > verifying, and a proper cleanup for both. If it is possible, I'll use > that > > engine as an example. > > > > It should be possible in most cases though this hasn't been tested for > additional implementations of existing methods: the gost ENGINE implements > completely new algorithms. > > There are a few exceptions where the old APIs haven't yet been updated. The > most notable is SSL/TLS/DTLS client authentication. > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. > Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > -- Felipe Menegola Blauth
