On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:47:00 +0100, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote: > > > Dear Richard, > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 8:47 AM Richard Levitte <levitte@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since our RAND API is separate from the EVP API, I'm unsure how we > plan on getting custom RAND_methods from providers. > > Please note that we can add RAND to the list of provider backed APIs, > and given a foundation that we're currently building, it may even be > quite easy. However, no one has said explicitly that we would do so. > > The other option is, of course, to move the RAND API to EVP somehow, > but that will probably be more challenging. > > I do not think it is really necessary to move RAND to EVP. > Current architecture suits our requirements, but if the possibility to overwrite > the RAND_METHOD is removed, it will cause problems for us. So it turns out that some of my collegues were assuming that the RAND API would be provider backed. I simply hadn't caught on to that... Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levitte@xxxxxxxxxxx OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/
