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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]