On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is anyone working on adding DES support to the engine code?
Um, sorta kinda. There's a few fundamental things being done that will,
hopefully, make it easier to get to a point where arbitrary ciphers, digests,
etc can be hooked. There's some EVP work that needs to be done first, and the
ENGINE code has to undergo some further changes now that ENGINEs can be a little
more dynamic than they could originally. Hooking all arbitrary ciphers and
digests through the ENGINE code, and hopefully allowing new algorithms and/or
modes to be plugged in automagically, is a bit trickier than the RSA, DSA, and
DH hooks were.
Although support for symmetric ciphers and digests is obviously the next major
goal of the ENGINE work - IMHO it's not an urgent priority just yet. Anyway a
few things still stand in the way that we're trying to take care of one by one.
If you want to dig in and help, please let me know and I'll try and hook you up
with some things to look at. :-)
Cheers,
Geoff
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