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author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-10-15 13:08:17 +0200 |
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committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2019-10-16 15:02:05 +0200 |
commit | a07c17ef57da20b7c6d075b303a6506f625dcd4e (patch) | |
tree | 096fdf0685af46399f046fa51d4fd5338a07537a /CHANGES | |
parent | 1af26e53bce7f075e27e2fa6a78764fa6620b8ab (diff) |
Add EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_provided()
This works as much as possible EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id(), except it takes
data that's relevant for providers, algorithm name and property query
string instead of NID and engine.
Additionally, if EVP_PKEY_CTX_new() or EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id() was
called, the algorithm name in the EVP_PKEY context will be set to the
short name of the given NID (explicit or the one of the given
EVP_PKEY), thereby giving an easier transition from legacy methods to
provided methods.
The intent is that operations will use this information to fetch
provider methods implicitly as needed.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/10184)
Diffstat (limited to 'CHANGES')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ Changes between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 [xx XXX xxxx] + *) Added functionality to create an EVP_PKEY context based on data + for methods from providers. This takes an algorithm name and a + property query string and simply stores them, with the intent + that any operation that uses this context will use those strings + to fetch the needed methods implicitly, thereby making the port + of application written for pre-3.0 OpenSSL easier. + [Richard Levitte] + *) The undocumented function NCONF_WIN32() has been deprecated; for conversion details see the HISTORY section of doc/man5/config.pod [Rich Salz] |