In article <001d01be8275$7ebc3280$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:

> I am wandering whether to use standard I/O rather than BIO for an =
> application I am tinkering with. I think I understand the basics of the =
> BIO philosophy. That was a great idea to allow to stack different BIOs =
> in orther to achieve certain functionailty.=20
> 
> But I can=B4t afford tinkering with the BIO library code, therefore my =
> idea of rolling back to standard I/O. I think that I will need only the =
> BIO_s_file, BIO_s_mem (or BIO_s_buffer, don't kown yet), BIO_f_md and =
> BIO_f_cipher.
> 
> Some advice please?

The BIO library is very reliable and is actually used really everywhere in
OpenSSL and at least already survived practice for more than a year.  OTOH you
should also look at various other I/O libraries. For instance AT&T's Sfio is
also a cool I/O library which provides stacking.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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