[Botan-devel] Misinformation in 1.2.5

[Jack L. <ll...@ac...>]

Hi,

What can I say but oops. As you may or may not know, as of Botan 1.2.5, I
declared several functions in the X509:: and PKCS8:: namespaces obsolete, and
by extension obsoleted the PK key constructors taking a DataSource&. However, I
have since discovered that it's quite easy to implement the same functionality
in the constructors without using the deprecated X509:: and PKCS8:: functions.
Thus, the following functions WILL be removed in 1.2.6:

   X509::decode
   PKCS8::decode
   PKCS8::decrypt_key

rather than in 1.3.x as was originally suggested in the docs. The only reason
they were staying until 1.3.x is because (I thought) they were needed to
implement the constructors. The PK key constructors taking a DataSource& will
NOT be removed, and are no longer deprecated. That said, I would strongly
suggest you use the X509::load_key and PKCS8::load_key functions rather than
the constructors. However, at this point I would think the DataSource& PK
constructors will be around until at least the post 1.4.x series.

Sorry,

Jack