Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > HASH_* APIs provide a good wrapper for the hashing algorithms.
> > But secsign.c does not use any of these. It instead calls
> > create/update/end directly on the hash context.
> >
> > Would it be better to use HASH_* APIs in secsign.c?
>
> We could use HASH_* APIs in secsign.c.  Perhaps the
> author of secsign.c wanted to save the function call
> overhead and decided to call create/update/end directly
> on the hash context.  Compared with calling HASH_Create,
> we also save a malloc call this way.

What do I need to do if I want to propose a change to use HASH_*  APIs
in this implementation?
This requires changes to the underneath structure for the opaque
SGNContext.  

> 
> Wan-Teh

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