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I am also
interested in porting OpenSSL to an EBCDIC platform, namely OS/390.
I'm
doing my development on HP-UX but I'll need to port the code to OS/390 if
possible.
When I get
to the point of working on OS/390, I can help with porting the
OpenSSL
code
if it hasn't been done already.
Whomever,
I have a couple of
OpenSSL platform questions.
Was OpenSSL
designed to run on an EBCDIC platform?
Are there specific
generation options required for generating OpenSSL for a EBCDIC
platform?
If there are
specific generation options can someone be kind enough to give me a detailed
list of the options and their values.
Our organization
would like to run EBCDIC applications using OpenSSL on a
mainframe. Certificates passed to various OpenSSL functions would
be ASCII, i.e. the certificates will be stored as ASCII pem files on the
mainframe, but the OpenSSL code would be compiled in EBCDIC mode. We
have encountered problems where certificate content checking is done using
EBCDIC literals against certificate data that is in ASCII and it obviously
fails.
We have tried
converting the ASCII pem files to EBCDIC but had no success,
not unexpectedly considering the pem file is
encoded.
I appreciate any
feedback.
Ken Torri
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