Re: Creating Certificates Via The SSL/Crypto Api's

[edf green]

Very straight forward and well documented?  You gotta be kidding.  Perhaps for a long time openssl developer, but not for your run of the mill C developer.  I spent all last night going through the example provided, and yeah beyond being painfully inhibiting for a developer in its complexity, its also hideously ugly code.

What im talking about is functions like a2i_ASN1_INTEGER.  When i check the crypto library documentation on openssl.org for usage or such, there is no man page available,  actually.. the entire asn1 section is blacked out. 

You guys are making me think that i should just provide my client a wrapper around the openssl tool itself, considering how frustrating it is to use this portion of the library.  I dont know, using this library is making me jaded towards it.  You'd think an industry standard library such as this wouldn't be so letdownish in terms of support and documentation.  I mean, this should be a 2 function ordeal.  I shouldn't have to be investing so much time into such a largely trivial portion of the solution.  Regardless im having to do it anyway, so im going to figure out wtf is going on and maybee post a wrapper somewhere so another balding twentysomething wont have to suffer the same as i am.

love;
~jason