(where it was impossible to create an EC certificate with a compressed
public key), and has some style improvements based on some comments from
Steve Henson about use of the ASN1 macros.
Submitted by: Nils Larsch
Reviewed by: Geoff Thorpe
behaviour was not quite consistent with the conventions
for d2i and i2d functions as far as handling of the 'out'
or 'in' pointer is concerned.
This patch changes this behaviour, and renames the functions to
o2i_ECPublicKey and i2o_ECPublicKey (not 'd2i' and 'i2d' because the
external encoding is just a raw object string without any DER icing).
Submitted by: Nils Larsch
efficiency (EC_PRE_COMP objects are now constant once completed).
Extend 'extra_data' API to support arbitrarily many slots (although we
need only one at the moment).
Modify EC internal 'extra_data' API: EC_GROUP_[clear_]free_extra_data
now frees only a single slot (the previous functions are available as
EC_GROUP_[clear_]free_all_extra_data).
Submitted by: Nils Larsch
Reviewed by: Bodo Moeller
key-generation and prime-checking functions. Rather than explicitly passing
callback functions and caller-defined context data for the callbacks, a new
structure BN_GENCB is defined that encapsulates this; a pointer to the
structure is passed to all such functions instead.
This wrapper structure allows the encapsulation of "old" and "new" style
callbacks - "new" callbacks return a boolean result on the understanding
that returning FALSE should terminate keygen/primality processing. The
BN_GENCB abstraction will allow future callback modifications without
needing to break binary compatibility nor change the API function
prototypes. The new API functions have been given names ending in "_ex" and
the old functions are implemented as wrappers to the new ones. The
OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED symbol has been introduced so that, if defined,
declaration of the older functions will be skipped. NB: Some
openssl-internal code will stick with the older callbacks for now, so
appropriate "#undef" logic will be put in place - this is in case the user
is *building* openssl (rather than *including* its headers) with this
symbol defined.
There is another change in the new _ex functions; the key-generation
functions do not return key structures but operate on structures passed by
the caller, the return value is a boolean. This will allow for a smoother
transition to having key-generation as "virtual function" in the various
***_METHOD tables.
