yet tighter, and also put some heat on the rest of the library by
insisting (correctly) that compare callbacks used in stacks are prototyped
with "const" parameters. This has led to a depth-first explosion of
compiler warnings in the code where 1 constification has led to 3 or 4
more. Fortunately these have all been resolved to completion and the code
seems cleaner as a result - in particular many of the _cmp() functions
should have been prototyped with "const"s, and now are. There was one
little problem however;
X509_cmp() should by rights compare "const X509 *" pointers, and it is now
declared as such. However, it's internal workings can involve
recalculating hash values and extensions if they have not already been
setup. Someone with a more intricate understanding of the flow control of
X509 might be able to tighten this up, but for now - this seemed the
obvious place to stop the "depth-first" constification of the code by
using an evil cast (they have migrated all the way here from safestack.h).
Fortunately, this is the only place in the code where this was required
to complete these type-safety changes, and it's reasonably clear and
commented, and seemed the least unacceptable of the options. Trying to
take the constification further ends up exploding out considerably, and
indeed leads directly into generalised ASN functions which are not likely
to cooperate well with this.
same one). However, the first will temporarily break things until the
second comes through. :-)
The safestack.h handling was mapping compare callbacks that externally
are of the type (int (*)(type **,type **)) into the underlying callback
type used by stack.[ch], which is (int (*)(void *,void *)). After some
degree of digging, it appears that the callback type in the underlying
stack code should use double pointers too - when the compare operations
are invoked (from sk_find and sk_sort), they are being used by bsearch
and qsort to compare two pointers to pointers. This change corrects the
prototyping (by only casting to the (void*,void*) form at the moment
it is needed by bsearch and qsort) and makes the mapping in safestack.h
more transparent. It also changes from "void*" to "char*" to stay in
keeping with stack.[ch]'s assumed base type of "char".
Also - the "const" situation was that safestack.h was throwing away
"const"s, and to compound the problem - a close examination of stack.c
showed that (const char **) is not really achieving what it is supposed
to when the callback is being invoked, what is needed is
(const char * const *). So the underlying stack.[ch] and the mapping
macros in safestack.h have all been altered to correct this.
What will follow are the vast quantities of "const" corrections required
in stack-dependant code that was being let "slip" through when
safestack.h was discarding "const"s. These now all come up as compiler
warnings.
cast their type-specific STACK into a real STACK and call the underlying
sk_*** function. The problem is that if the STACK_OF(..) parameter being
passed in has a "const *" qualifier, it is discarded by the cast.
I'm currently implementing a fix for this but in the mean-time, this is
one case I noticed (a few type-specific sk_**_num() functions pass in
const type-specific stacks). If there are other errors in the code where
consts are being discarded, we will similarly not notice them. yuck.
Change EVP_SealInit() and EVP_OpenInit() to
handle cipher parameters.
Make it possible to set RC2 and RC5 params.
Make RC2 ASN1 code use the effective key bits
and not the key length.
TODO: document how new API works.
Declare ciphers in terms of macros. This reduces
the amount of code and places each block cipher EVP
definition in a single file instead of being spread
over 4 files.
Declare ciphers in terms of macros. This reduces
the amount of code and places each block cipher EVP
definition in a single file instead of being spread
over 4 files.
There's no trace of it being implemented and it doesn't seem to have been
intended given that it is prototyped with a BIO yet there was a BIO-
specific version added in at the same time.
Change functions like EVP_EncryptUpdate() so they now return a
value. These normally have software only implementations
which cannot fail so this was acceptable. However ciphers
can be implemented in hardware and these could return errors.
enhance and tidy up the EVP interface.
This patch adds initial support for variable length ciphers
and changes S/MIME code to use this.
Some other library functions need modifying to support use
of modified cipher parameters.
Also need to change all the cipher functions that should
return error codes, but currenly don't.
And of course it needs extensive testing...
