Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Christian Heinrich
Dr Dale, On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 10:45, Dr Paul Dale wrote: > The question was should we design our APIs to ease the pain existing > users of OpenSSL or should we be trying to attract new users. > The idea being that supporting existing users means not changing the > existing API, whereas catering

Monthly Status Report (October)

2020-11-02 Thread Matt Caswell
As well as normal reviews, responding to user queries, wiki user requests, OMC business, handling security reports, etc., key activities this month: - Fixed DHX parameter encoding (they were incorrectly being encoded using PKCS3 Parameters). Also extended the encode/decode tests as part of this. -

Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Dick Franks
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 10:47, Christian Heinrich < christian.heinr...@cmlh.id.au> wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 10:45, Dr Paul Dale wrote: > > The question was should we design our APIs to ease the pain existing > > users of OpenSSL or should we be trying to attract new users. > > The idea bei

Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 03:51:58PM +, Dick Franks wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 10:47, Christian Heinrich < > > > > Maybe we should define the problems that new end users experience > > during onboarding instead and address those first? > > > > Better documentation would help enormously. W

Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Michael Richardson
Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 10:47, Christian Heinrich < >> >> >> > Maybe we should define the problems that new end users experience >> > during onboarding instead and address those first? >> > >> >> Better documentation would help enormously.

Fwd: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Matt Caswell
Forwarding this to openssl-project from openssl-users. Please keep the discussion on the openssl-project list! Note: Although openssl-project is a moderated list, I am one of the moderators and will let through posts that are clearly relevant. Matt Forwarded Message Subject:

Re: Project direction (fwd) Michael Richardson: Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Michael Richardson
--- Begin Message --- Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > Also, there is an assumption OpenSSL is only used by other C developers, > by the use of public macros that are not usable in any other language. > BoringSSL replaced macros with exports and OpenSSL should consider

Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> My claim is that much of the "applications" should be removed > from the core system, and should be re-implemented in a cleaner > way using the APIs. > I.e. into a separate git repo with it's own release schedule. > > They should serve as exemplars for using the APIs, which they are > often a

Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Michael Richardson
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > OpenSSL is really aimed at two markets, developers using the API and > admins using the applications, it would be easier for both groups if > the help was separate. I think that the "admins using the application" has never been a target.

Re: Project direction

2020-11-02 Thread Ergzay
On Nov 2, 2020, at 2:16 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > > OpenSSL is really aimed at two markets, developers using the API and > > admins using the applications, it would be easier for both groups if > > the help was separate. > I think that the "a