Hi, It appears that the way ECDSA_METHOD was defined prevents it from being used unless the internal header ecs_locl.h is included. This prevents it from being used for example to implement a stand-alone dynamic engine for ECDSA, since the internal header is not available.
If possible i would like to see a fix applied to openssl stable, due to the fact that no ECDSA engines can be implemented without the fix. Thanks, Kent On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idra...@idrix.net> wrote: > > Yes, you should open a ticket on the issue tracker. However, I'm not sure if > Dr. Stephen Henson will agree to add this change to the current stable > versions (0.9.8x and 1.0.0x) as he usually delays header changes till the > 1.1.0 release. > > -- > Mounir IDRASSI > IDRIX > http://www.idrix.fr > > On 2/23/2011 4:44 PM, Kent Yoder wrote: >> >> Thanks Mounir, >> >> I'd like to use ECDSA_METHOD to implement a dynamic engine for >> ecdsa. I want to avoid copying the header files from the upstream >> source so that my engine package can compile stand-alone. This should >> be in line with the way dynamic engines have worked for other >> algorithms since 0.9.8, if I understand correctly. >> >> Should I open an item in the issue tracker for this? >> >> Thanks, >> Kent >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Mounir IDRASSI >> <mounir.idra...@idrix.net> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In the case of RSA_METHOD, it is working because the underlying type >>> rsa_meth_st is defined in rsa.h, whereas for ECDSA_METHOD, the underlying >>> type ecdsa_method is not exported by the public headers: it is defined in >>> the internal OpenSSL header ecs_locl.h found in the source distribution ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
