On Fri, May 28, 2004, Thomas Schuerger wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems using the RSA_private_decrypt() function of the crypto > library in parallel with *the same* (RSA *) structure. When using a > single thread, decryption works flawlessly, when using two or more > threads in parallel, decryption mostly fails with PKCS errors. > > I thought the RSA structure would be accessed read-only so that this > should be thread-safe. >
There are some montgomery parameters that are cached in the RSA structure when it is first used. You need to set the appropriate locking callbacks to avoid a race condition in a multithreaded environment. > Any ideas how to solve this? Is there a function that duplicates an > RSA structure so that I can duplicate it before using it? > RSAPrivateKey_dup(). Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
