On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:11:38PM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote:
> This adds two compat implementations for the OpenSSL 4 API that is
> required to deal with opaque strings. This API will eventually land in
> libcrypto but I did not manage to do that in this cycle for various
> reasons.
> 
> Once LibreSSL provides this, the file will move to portable, but for
> now this way is simplest to ensure that rpki-client as expected with all
> libcrypto versions we care about.
> 
> I did not guard the prototypes in extern.h because there's no need.
> 
> The openssl bit in regress isn't for commit. I did it this way to keep
> the diff small if anyone wants to test that. You'll need to build and
> install the security/openssl/4.0 and security/openssl/libretls4 ports.
> 
> Portable should just work after linking asn1_bit_string.c to the build,
> but OpenSSL 4 support needs a little logic to set HAVE_ASN1_BIT_STRING_* 

By the way, I am perfectly happy to hold on to this diff until after the
rpki-client and openbsd releases. I don't think this is that urgent
(OpenSSL 4 is bound to be released tomorrow), so it would be a nice to
have but perhaps not worth the (small, IMO) risk.