On Wed, Apr 08, 2009, Gary Kennedy wrote: > Specifically, I'm after the version & digestAlgorithms fields of the > signed-data CMS structure, (read-only at this stage). > > How may I go about accessing these fields without 'illegally' including the > cms_lcl.h header? >
You can't at present as there isn't a function to access them. Why do you need to access those btw? > On a more general basis, why are these structures obscured? (Apart from the > 'prevent-shooting-in-foot' reason - which I've already done with all the > other structures, like X509) > The main reason is to stop applications manually accessing the structure fields. If the structure needs to be updated in future for newer versions of CMS we can freely change the structure size and add, delete or modify fields without breaking applications or introducing binary compatibility issues. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
