On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:17:13AM -0700, Geoff Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > 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. :-)
Any looks at extensions for key storage on HSM's ???
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