Re: Harmonising OpenSSL UI handling...

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Dr Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

drh> So, any thoughts on the matter?

Hmm, a general UI function in OpenSSL that takes the following
parameters:

        - a command number (GIVE_PASSWD, HANDLE_CARD, ...)
        - a prompt string
        - a "wrong" string (eh, "That was the wrong password", f. example?)
        - a return buffer (double pointer, so we might allocate it in
          that function)
        - a return buffer size (pointer to int, so we might fill it in
          ourselves)
        - a pointer to user data

This function would then do a default thing or call an application-supplied
callback that does the right thing.

Does that sound like an idea?

In any case, this would probably become a new directory under crypto/,
don't you think?  crypto/ui/?

[it should be plain visible that I was a bit inspired from the
HWCryptoHook stuff :-)]

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