Manuel Mollar wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > I have compiled and used this program without problems about this.
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> > Are you really using an encrypted key with password (PIN-code)?
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> No, I have simply tried the program with a demo pkey.
> I don't have read your mail carefully, sorry.
> What is really the effect of SSLeay_add_all_algorithms() ?
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It adds a list of all algorithms to a lookup table, so when you decrypt
something and its says "DES" it knows which algorithms it is referring
to.
Secondly, as a result, it ends up linking in all the relevant algorithms
for static libraries.
The means that you could, for example, write out an encrypted private
key without SSLeay_add_all_algorithms(), but you couldn't read it in
again because the lookup would fail.
Steve.
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