On 14:03 Sun 23 Jan , leon breedt wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:23:38 +0900, Jamis Buck <jamis_buck / byu.edu> wrote: > > Actually, Net::SSH needs this. It allows you to explicitly set the > > key's parameters: > > > > rsa = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new > > rsa.e = 1234123432 > > rsa.n = 3453234398 > > > > DSA and DH keys also allow the empty constructor. > I noticed :) > > >From reading the archives, it appears you've done a fair amount of > work in terms of finding out what the OpenSSL bindings do. > > I'm busy slowly adding RDoc to the OpenSSL bindings, mind if I ask you > to proofread when I have something more substantial to show? Well, I figured out what I needed to make Net::SSH work, which is only a fairly small subset of OpenSSL (mostly just the Bignum stuff, and keys). I'd be happy to read over your docs, though. Just might not be give much feedback on most of it. :) > > I have very little in the way of experience with OpenSSL, but having > needed to use it recently in Ruby, I wasted a lot of time trying to > figure out what to do, so I'm hoping documenting the Ruby bindings > will alleviate this for the next person who comes along to do it. Generations to come will bless your name, Leon! > Its currently not too clear how to add documentation for in-tree stuff > though, so I've just started adding stuff to ext/ossl/*.c, but I'm > wary that a massive patch adding the docs won't get accepted. > > Any ideas? Good question. I'm not very familiar with the process of documenting the modules. James Britt--I assume you'd know more about this? - Jamis -- Jamis Buck jamis_buck / byu.edu http://jamis.jamisbuck.org ------------------------------ "I am Victor of Borge. You will be assimil-nine-ed."