[issue30102] improve performance of libSSL usage on hashing

Thu Apr 20 11:13:57 EDT 2017

Gustavo Serra Scalet added the comment:

> Since OPENSSL_config() accepts a filename, maybe a first step would be
> to expose the function as ssl.OPENSSL_config(filename) to allow user to
> load *explicitly* a configuration file? ssl.OPENSSL_config() would call
> OPENSSL_config(NULL). Would it work for you, Gustavo?

It would work, I would just wait for such a decision.

BTW, that interface is deprecated as we're discussing on the issue on GitHub:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/cda3ae5bd0798c56fef5a5c1462d51ca1776504e/doc/crypto/OPENSSL_config.pod#notes

I'll continue analyzing this issue there.

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