Ulf M�ller wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:33:29AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > directly between an ASN1 INTEGER and a BIGNUM. CBIGNUM clears the > > BIGNUM when it is freed (for sensitive information). > > Shouldn't that rather be an attribute of BIGNUM? Well its just what the thing is called at the new ASN1 level. Its referenced by an ASN1_ITEM structure called CBIGNUM_it. It all uses BIGNUM structures and just that CBIGNUM_it has a flag set in its structure that automatically ends up clearing it out when it is freed. Or did you mean something else? Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/ Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior crypto engineer, Celo Communications: http://www.celocom.com/ Core developer of the OpenSSL project: http://www.openssl.org/ Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: via homepage. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
