OpenSSH and OpenSSL snapshots

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker levitte at stacken.kth.se
Thu Jan 24 20:06:52 EST 2002


From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at columbia.edu>

jaltman> The only way that this can be handled is to use macros to map from
jaltman> the old api to the new functions.  I do not see any other way that
jaltman> will allow the libdes.a to be mixed with libcrypto.a.  

I'm thinking you're right.  At the same time, I want to retain C type
security as well as possible.  How about this: I could rename all the
old functions to _old_des_* and then have cpp macros that map des_* to
_old_des_*.  That would probably resolve all the issues.

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