On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:45:10PM +1100, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > I tested failing to load a provider with OpenSSL 3.5 and Postfix, and > found that OPENSSL_init_ssl() does not actually return an error in that > case. Ordinary failure to load a provider is not considered fatal. This will likely be fixed in a future OpenSSL version, perhaps 3.5: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/26997 Though for an application to notice it would need to perform explicit library initialisation with non-default "settings", as in the Postfix example. -- Viktor. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "openssl-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openssl-users+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/openssl.org/d/msgid/openssl-users/Z86UjRechtq6zRs7%40chardros.imrryr.org.