Richard Levitte

This isn't just an OpenSSL problem, is it? There are other libraries that are plugable (and essentially, providers are exactly that, plugins), and I imagine that they also have their...

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No, those capabilities are private / internal to the provider conf module. What you can do is to use `CONF_modules_load()` with a `CONF *` that you have create using `NCONF_load_bio()`...

Yes, that's the idea. *NOTE: I have not tested this! I only quickly read some manual pages and a header file* Have fun playing :wink:

From the build output, it looks like you've set the prefix and openssldir to the source directory. That's surprising. Set them to a different directory, like `C:\VirtualPartition-D\Project\CLP\OpenSSL\OpenSSL_3.0\install`

My take away is that reducing code block copies is a good thing. (I've ranted quite strongly about the bad habit of code block copying before) That alone has me...

Regarding the OTC hold, do you want to keep it, @hlandau, or has this PR been argued enough? (yes, I know that it wasn't @hlandau that raised it...)

Thank you, that's indeed documentation updates we failed to make.

> > Thank you, that's indeed documentation updates we failed to make. > > I wonder if we can somehow extend doc-nits to check for consistency of man page declarations...

I'm don't quite agree with what @t8m said. The selector when reading isn't a precise instrument, it's more of an indication what the key could potentially be used for (according...