In message <d8941512-76a1-5871-afa0-68b513c834c2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:29:52 -0700, Jordan Brown <openssl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: openssl> [re STORE design] openssl> To be clear: it doesn't bother me one way or the other. It openssl> just seemed like the general design for "reading data from a openssl> stream" for OpenSSL is to read from a BIO, rather than openssl> directly providing "read from file", "read from memory openssl> buffer", et cetera. I was surprised to see a new feature that openssl> didn't follow that pattern. I *do* need "read from memory" openssl> for my application, but writing a temporary file would not be openssl> a problem. Well, thing is that the source of data might not be something that lends itself well for a BIO interface... For example certificates and keys hidden by an HSM of some sort. So the STORE is an abstraction of any sort of storage for that kind of protected data, and to directly translate it to usable objects, something that would be quite difficult with the BIO API. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levitte@xxxxxxxxxxx OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/ -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
