Re: cvs commit: openssl/crypto/x509v3 Makefile.ssl v3conf.cv3prin.c

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

drh> Ulf M�ller wrote:
drh> > 
drh> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 02:33:29AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
drh> > 
drh> > >   directly between an ASN1 INTEGER and a BIGNUM. CBIGNUM clears the
drh> > >   BIGNUM when it is freed (for sensitive information).
drh> > 
drh> > Shouldn't that rather be an attribute of BIGNUM?
drh> 
drh> Well its just what the thing is called at the new ASN1 level. Its
drh> referenced by an ASN1_ITEM structure called CBIGNUM_it. It all uses
drh> BIGNUM structures and just that CBIGNUM_it has a flag set in its
drh> structure that automatically ends up clearing it out when it is freed.
drh> 
drh> Or did you mean something else?

I think Ulf means that the flag in CBIGNUM_it should really be part of
BIGNUM instead.  I do agree about that, and since there's already a
flags member in BIGNUM, it's not hard at all to impement...

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