[Qt-interest] Adding key generation functionality to QSslKey - any ideas?

[Darren Lissimore]

Hello all;

I would like to add Key generation methods to the QSslKey class to
enable generation of keys instead of just reading them in from
QByteArrays or QIOdevices.
For this I would use the following OpenSSL function - and the DSA equivalent:

 RSA *RSA_generate_key(int num, unsigned long e,
    void (*callback)(int,int,void *), void *cb_arg);

My problem is trying to come up with the best method to do it.

QSslKey has the handle() method - but what I need is the ability to
set the internall  RSA * or DSA * structures within the QSslKey class.
The OpenSSL key generation functions return a pointer to the setup RSA
or DSA structures with the new key in it.
I was hoping to subclass - and add the key generation methods but the
data is private.

Ideally I would like to come up with a class that does not require a
patch to Qt.

Any ideas?

Darren
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