[Cryptography] Apple and OpenSSL

[John Ioannidis]

On Apr 24, 2014 2:18 PM, "Peter Gutmann" <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> ianG <iang at iang.org> writes:
> >On 21/04/2014 07:45 am, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> >> I use a slightly different approach: Don't assume a C API/ABI.  If
your API
> >> can deal with C, Java, Perl, Tcl, Delphi, and Visual Basic, all via
the single
> >> API,
> >
> >What rules/guidelines do you use to achieve that?
>
> See Dennis' followup message, use access methods (get/set/delete) rather
than
> direct access to internal members.  One side-effect of this is that it
> requires a reasonably well thought-out API, so that you don't end up
having to
> call a dozen set-value methods for each operation you want to perform.
>
> Peter.
>
My necessary (but not sufficient) criterion is this: can you stub out all
your api calls and use it over RPC?  (This is orthogonal to statelessness
or idempotent RPCs)

../ji
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