Re: [RFC] OpenSSL BigNum support

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: >> What are the specific reasons for choosing OpenSSL Bignums over GMP, >> outside of extension availability (which is totally a path I don't want us >> to go down -- see also recent attempts to duplicate ext/mbstring into >> ext/standard)? Are there any particular properties of the openssl >> implementation that are beneficial for certain applications? > > I'd say having it for free when you have OpenSSL is a factor. If it were > separate extension, I'd say the right route is to just make PECL ext as > usual, but since this kind of has the natural place in openssl, it may > be a bit different. > > I do see a point though that somehow integrating with the rest of > OpenSSL would be a good thing then. After all, if you have code that > does some interesting stuff with data but you can't use openssl pkey > functions to input/output the results, it turns into reimplementing the > whole crypto system and that's usually not a good idea. > Is the feedback then that we should expose /more/ of the OpenSSL API? I'm happy to expand this to encompass more of the crypto library functions. -Sara