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diff --git a/README.ENGINE b/README.ENGINE deleted file mode 100644 index 8318db0a49..0000000000 --- a/README.ENGINE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ - - ENGINE - ====== - - With OpenSSL 0.9.6, a new component has been added to support external - crypto devices, for example accelerator cards. The component is called - ENGINE, and has still a pretty experimental status and almost no - documentation. It's designed to be faily easily extensible by the - calling programs. - - There's currently built-in support for the following crypto devices: - - o CryptoSwift - o Compaq Atalla - o nCipher CHIL - - A number of things are still needed and are being worked on: - - o An openssl utility command to handle or at least check available - engines. - o A better way of handling the methods that are handled by the - engines. - o Documentation! - - What already exists is fairly stable as far as it has been tested, but - the test base has been a bit small most of the time. - - - No external crypto device is chosen unless you say so. You have actively - tell the openssl utility commands to use it through a new command line - switch called "-engine". And if you want to use the ENGINE library to - do something similar, you must also explicitely choose an external crypto - device, or the built-in crypto routines will be used, just as in the - default OpenSSL distribution. - - - PROBLEMS - ======== - - It seems like the ENGINE part doesn't work too well with Cryptoswift on - Win32. A quick test done right before the release showed that trying - "openssl speed -engine cswift" generated errors. If the DSO gets enabled, - an attempt is made to write at memory address 0x00000002. - |