On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011, Jakob Bohm wrote:
>
>>
>> Is openssl running out of bit values for SSL_OP_ constants?
>>
>
> Well more ran out of contants. When a new flag was needed for TLS v1.2 all 32
> bits were used but fortunately two ancient ones were never used by anything
> AFAIK so could be reassigned.
>
> There is one left now.
>
> It will need redoing at some point so more flags are available. Splitting it
> up into separate fields for bug workaround and protocol selection options is
> one possibility.

Sounds like that last bit needs to be reserved for "enable all future
SSL_OP_ALL options".

>
> Steve.
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