On June 29, 2005 08:44 pm, Banginwar, Rajesh wrote: > So far from the preliminary analysis that we have done (by looking at > some of the OSS applications) we see both libssl and libcrypto being > used. E.g. from libcrypto I find functions in EVP, RSA, MD5 and DSA > sets more commonly used than others. Unfortunately this is not an > exhaustive study. Do you or anyone on this project have data suggesting > which APIs are candidates for LSB inclusion both from demand and > stability point of view?
I'm not sure how you would harvest this kind of information. From a build perspective, it may be quite difficult to disentangle one API from the next. I guess someone truly masoc^H^H^H^H^Hdedicated could create an alternative "openssl-lsb.h" header to build against - one that declared only the subset of functionality that mattered from an LSB perspective and then see how external apps fare building against that. However there's a lot of macro-abuse in some areas of the code, and if this "shimming" got tangled up in trying to reproduce ASN1 definitions then I don't even want to contemplate where it might lead... Something to think about I guess. But it certainly seems hairy to attempt to standardise too much invariance across major releases that we expect will ... um ... vary. > I just checked the release history for openssl and it is encouraging to > see the major releases are years apart. I see that with some efforts it > may be possible to hide some of the data structure dependencies (as > Steve pointed out in other emails on this thread) and get some sets of > APIs to a "stable" level and push for LSB inclusion. There was at least > one comment from application developer encouraging this even though it > will require major changes. It sounds like a fairly labourious process though (ie. I doubt we'll be dispersing the volunteers with tear-gas or anything). Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openssl.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
