Folks, Can we promote the Asym APIs to stable now?
Regards, Akhil > > On 07/09/2021 12:45, Akhil Goyal wrote: > >>> Do you think all the asym APIs are not eligible for promoting it to stable > >> APIs? > >>> I haven't seen any changes for quite some time and we cannot have it > >>> experimental Forever. > >>> The APIs which you think are expected to change, we can leave them as > >>> experimental And mark the others as stable. > >> We could potentially make capability related functions stable but for > >> others > >> there are still some many uncertainties, another example: > >> Ecdsa op expects 'k' in "in the interval (1, n-1)", openssl pmd will not > >> even > >> have function that accepts 'k' (although optionally inverse of k yes), what > >> should user put then here? > >> > >> This API needs more attention I believe, I can send patches for it after > >> 21.11 > >> release. > >> My opinion is that we should push all this by another year. > >> > > Ok will drop this patch for now. > > > > Look since everyone is in alignment here, I am going to ask the symbol bot to > ignore > the asym crypto APIs for the next year. Thanks for the diligence on this, and > thanks to > Fan for sending me an FYI. > > Ray K
