RAND_DRBG

2020-07-26 Thread Dr Paul Dale
The RAND_DRBG (crypto/rand/drbg_lib) APIs are quite some mess and sit badly with the move to provider based infrastructure. They are definitely being deprecated in master but without more, the extra layer of indirection and additional complexity generating random numbers will remain. The option

Re: RAND_DRBG

2020-07-26 Thread SHANE LONTIS
If this is not going to break 99% of users + it improves the interface + the replacement to achieve the same is a few lines of code and is likely to occur in one place in an app, then it seems reasonable to change it to me. > On 27 Jul 2020, at 11:08 am, Dr Paul Dale wrote: > > The RAND_DRBG

Re: RAND_DRBG

2020-07-26 Thread SHANE LONTIS
i.e. Choose option (1) > On 27 Jul 2020, at 11:14 am, SHANE LONTIS wrote: > > If this is not going to break 99% of users + it improves the interface + the > replacement to achieve the same is a few lines of code and is likely to occur > in one place in an app, then it seems reasonable to cha