Re: Bug somewhere in crypto or ipsec stuff

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <Xine.LNX.4.44.0310292221320.23405-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
(at Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:22:50 -0500 (EST)), James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> 
says:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> 
> 
> > I would just disallow name == NULL,
> > well, what algorithm do you expect?
> 
> Good question.  It seems to me to be a bug in the calling code if it is 
> trying to look up nothing -- I'd rather not paper that over.

Do you mean that we need to fix the caller?

Well, people may want to get just any algorithm.
In such case,
 - crypto allows name == NULL, and return any algorithm
   (for example, an algorithm that we see first.)
 - caller may filter name == NULL case if it is ambiguous in their context.

--yoshfuji