> Uhmmmm... the d2i functions are already both in one. Are you saying they > should be split in two, one part that does all the checking and the other that > just decodes, trusting that all checks are already done? What you're gonna > do there is double part of the work.
Well, not double, but first do the cascade then return an indicator of which specific one worked. Then the application can call a routine to again do the decode. If it bothers you, return the size as an output parameter. That fits with our i2d model. > But, what I get from you is "what if a octet stream matches two different > ASN.1 types? Is that it? Yes among others. How do you know it will *never* happen? -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
