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Richard Levitte f99659535d ENCODER & DECODER: Allow decoder implementations to specify "carry on"
So far, decoder implementations would return true (1) for a successful
decode all the way, including what the callback it called returned,
and false (0) in all other cases.

This construction didn't allow to stop to decoding process on fatal
errors, nor to choose what to report in the provider code.

This is now changed so that decoders implementations are made to
return false only on errors that should stop the decoding process from
carrying on with other implementations, and return true for all other
cases, even if that didn't result in a constructed object (EVP_PKEY
for example), essentially making it OK to return "empty handed".

The success of the decoding process is now all about successfully
constructing the final object, rather than about the return value of
the decoding chain.  If no construction is attempted, the central
decoding processing code concludes that whatever the input consisted
of, it's not supported by the available decoder implementations.

Fixes #14423

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14834)
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OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source Toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol formerly known as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The protocol implementation is based on a full-strength general purpose cryptographic library, which can also be used stand-alone.

OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.

The official Home Page of the OpenSSL Project is www.openssl.org.

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Overview

The OpenSSL toolkit includes:

  • libssl an implementation of all TLS protocol versions up to TLSv1.3 (RFC 8446).

  • libcrypto a full-strength general purpose cryptographic library. It constitutes the basis of the TLS implementation, but can also be used independently.

  • openssl the OpenSSL command line tool, a swiss army knife for cryptographic tasks, testing and analyzing. It can be used for

    • creation of key parameters
    • creation of X.509 certificates, CSRs and CRLs
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Source code tarballs of the official releases can be downloaded from www.openssl.org/source. The OpenSSL project does not distribute the toolkit in binary form.

However, for a large variety of operating systems precompiled versions of the OpenSSL toolkit are available. In particular on Linux and other Unix operating systems it is normally recommended to link against the precompiled shared libraries provided by the distributor or vendor.

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Although testing and development could in theory also be done using the source tarballs, having a local copy of the git repository with the entire project history gives you much more insight into the code base.

The official OpenSSL Git Repository is located at git.openssl.org. There is a GitHub mirror of the repository at github.com/openssl/openssl, which is updated automatically from the former on every commit.

A local copy of the Git Repository can be obtained by cloning it from the original OpenSSL repository using

git clone git://git.openssl.org/openssl.git

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git clone https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git

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