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authorUlf Möller <ulf@openssl.org>2001-09-07 08:13:40 +0200
committerUlf Möller <ulf@openssl.org>2001-09-07 08:13:40 +0200
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crypto devices (eg. accelerator cards). This component is called ENGINE,
and its presence in OpenSSL 0.9.6 (and subsequent bug-fix releases)
caused a little confusion as 0.9.6** releases were rolled in two
- versions, a "standard" and an "engine" verion. In development for 0.9.7,
+ versions, a "standard" and an "engine" version. In development for 0.9.7,
the ENGINE code has been merged into the main branch and will be present
in the standard releases from 0.9.7 forwards.
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
gets its own copy of it. As such, multi-threaded code (or code that
multiplexes multiple uses of 'dynamic' in a single application in any
way at all) does not get confused by 'dynamic' being used to do many
- independant things. Other ENGINEs typically don't do this so there is
+ independent things. Other ENGINEs typically don't do this so there is
only ever 1 ENGINE structure of its type (and reference counts are used
to keep order). The dynamic ENGINE itself provides absolutely no
cryptographic functionality, and any attempt to "initialise" the ENGINE
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
"-pre" syntax in the "openssl engine" utility is that some commands
might be issued to an ENGINE *after* it has been initialised for use.
Eg. if an ENGINE implementation requires a smart-card to be inserted
- during intialisation (or a PIN to be typed, or whatever), there may be
+ during initialisation (or a PIN to be typed, or whatever), there may be
a control command you can issue afterwards to "forget" the smart-card
so that additional initialisation is no longer possible. In
applications such as web-servers, where potentially volatile code may
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@
hand such applications would only have the memory footprint of any
ENGINEs explicitly loaded using user/admin provided control commands.
The main advantage of not statically linking ENGINEs and only using
- "dynamic" for hardare support is that any installation using no
- "external" ENGINE suffers no unecessary memory footprint from unused
+ "dynamic" for hardware support is that any installation using no
+ "external" ENGINE suffers no unnecessary memory footprint from unused
ENGINEs. Likewise, installations that do require an ENGINE incur the
overheads from only *that* ENGINE once it has been loaded.
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
if OpenSSL itself is built as a shared library. The instructions are
the same in each case, but in the former (statically linked any
dependencies on OpenSSL) you must ensure OpenSSL is built with
- position-independant code ("PIC"). The default OpenSSL compilation may
+ position-independent code ("PIC"). The default OpenSSL compilation may
already specify the relevant flags to do this, but you should consult
with your compiler documentation if you are in any doubt.
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
PROBLEMS
========
- It seems like the ENGINE part doesn't work too well with Cryptoswift on Win32.
+ It seems like the ENGINE part doesn't work too well with CryptoSwift on Win32.
A quick test done right before the release showed that trying "openssl speed
-engine cswift" generated errors. If the DSO gets enabled, an attempt is made
to write at memory address 0x00000002.