--- Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ENGINE is a sort of container for implementations of the various > ***_METHOD implementations, and the "method" tables have always worked > this way too. Ie. upon creation, a structure is linked to a function > table that handles processing. In the case of ENGINEs this is also pretty > much necessary because the ENGINE may maintain state associated with a > given key structure so you must map the structure to the ENGINE. This > happens even in the acceleration-only case (cached values) but is > especially important when supported keys contained in hardware.
That makes sense, I hadn't considered state being maintained by the ENGINE, I was thinking it was more an atomic operation. Thanks! -- Jonathan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
