Provider parameters are parameters set by the core that the provider
can retrieve. The primary use it to support making OpenSSL
configuration data available to the provider.
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8549)
To ensure that old applications aren't left without any provider, and
at the same time not forcing any default provider on applications that
know how to deal with them, we device the concept of fallback
providers, which are automatically activated if no other provider is
already activated.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8480)
The OSSL_PROVIDER is the core object involved in loading a provider
module, initialize a provider and do the initial communication of
provider wide and core wide dispatch tables.
Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8287)
Richard Levitte