behaviour was not quite consistent with the conventions
for d2i and i2d functions as far as handling of the 'out'
or 'in' pointer is concerned.

This patch changes this behaviour, and renames the functions to
o2i_ECPublicKey and i2o_ECPublicKey (not 'd2i' and 'i2d' because the
external encoding is just a raw object string without any DER icing).

Submitted by: Nils Larsch

For some reason it was disabled...

if the write fails when flushing the buffer return the
value to the application so it can retry.

PR: 511
Submitted by: Eric Cronin

An advisory will be posted to the web.  Expect a release within the hour.

Reportedly this option is deprecated, and on some systems
"make test" fails if it is included.

PR: 495

elements directly, so this missing functionality is required.

PR: 276

be cast later on.

Also, I've added handling for other mod_exp calls that were not using any
cached montgomery forms. These cases matter only for special RSA keys (eg.
ones that are missing information) so are unlikely to be used in normal
circumstances.

verification step of CRT private key operations in the RSA code -
previously no montgomery form was checked or used for 'n', and so it would
be generated on the fly each time. As a result, private key operations are
now a percent or two faster.

Rather than adding this as another repetition of the nearly-identical
montgomery "check for first-use" initialisation code blocks, I've taken
this chance to create a helper function and macro-wrapper to replace them.

PR: 475

PR: 454

on it.

I also updated the bn_ops field with values taken from OpenBSD-mips.
PR: 498

PR: 500

PR: 500

PR: 358

applications, at least on the platforms where it's known how
to do it.

Note: this has only been tested on GNU-based platforms (Linux), and
needs to be tested on all others.  Additionally, it's not yet
supported on the following platforms, for lack of information:

Darwin (MacOS X)
Cygwin
OSF1/Alpha
SVR3
ReliantUNIX

Please help out with testing and the platforms we don't yet know well
enough.

Submitted by: Nils Larsch

efficiency (EC_PRE_COMP objects are now constant once completed).

Extend 'extra_data' API to support arbitrarily many slots (although we
need only one at the moment).

Modify EC internal 'extra_data' API: EC_GROUP_[clear_]free_extra_data
now frees only a single slot (the previous functions are available as
EC_GROUP_[clear_]free_all_extra_data).

Submitted by: Nils Larsch
Reviewed by: Bodo Moeller

mit_des_cbc_cksum().  The difference was first observed, then verified by
looking at the MIT source.