Re: Patch: save/load state of SHA1

Richard Salz wrote:
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>Being able to load/save the digest state is a good idea. Management of
>the buffer should be left to the caller, however. Much simpler and
>cleaner that way. For example, work like the DER/i2d routines: if given a
>NULL pointer, return how much space is needed. Or provide something like
>the RSA_size function which tells you how much space is needed to store
>the state.
>
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That approach is fine too, and more traditional.

The current patch allows slightly easier code in all applications using
it (it saves them a 'get size' call, a malloc and a check if the malloc
succeeded).

I'll post an updated version of the patch later.

Nanno


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