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Hi All,

Continuing with the problems of making structs opaque, currently the API
for querying the information about ciphers is quite weak. Only
SSL_CIPHER_description
provides access to data such as the key exchange method, and parsing a
string to obtain this information seems daft. We're missing API for:
key exchange, authentication method, encryption algorithm, MAC and the
export flag. It's also worth noting that SSL_CIPHER_get_version and
SSL_CIPHER_description
should probably be returning const char * not char *.

Cheers

Rich.

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rif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cheers</=
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erif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></s=
pan></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:verdana,sans-se=
rif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Rich.</s=
pan></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:verdana,sans-se=
rif"><span style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></sp=
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