On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:28:03PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
>> It should be possible to implement something close to what you
>> describe at <URL http://www.kegel.com/ssl/api.html> on top of the
>> current SSL API with new SSL_get_error return values addeed, using
>> either a BIO pair or memory BIOs.
> But why would you want to?
The mere possibility shows that the APIs are essentially equivalent,
i.e. there's nothing that you can do with one of them that
you can't do with the other one. (Assuming that modes are added
for switching off expensive cryptographic operations.)
> The whole point of my API was to reduce
> the complexity of the innards of OpenSSL,
I'm not convinced that the complexity would be reduced.
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