EC_GROUP_new_by_nid() should be enough.  This avoids a lot of
redundancy.

Submitted by: Nils Larsch

needed, call 'pod2man' directly if this works

PR: 217

Additional changes:
 - use EC_GROUP_get_degree() in apps/req.c
 - add ECDSA and ECDH to apps/speed.c
 - adds support for EC curves over binary fields to ECDSA
 - new function EC_KEY_up_ref() in crypto/ec/ec_key.c
 - reorganize crypto/ecdsa/ecdsatest.c
 - add engine support for ECDH
 - fix a few bugs in ECDSA engine support

Submitted by: Douglas Stebila <douglas.stebila@sun.com>

Submitted by: Nils Larsch

This should complete PR 75

Make pod2mantest useable on DOS-based systems.
Part of PR 75, the rest is still under investigation.

PR: 124

(the same keys can be used for ECC schemes other than ECDSA)
and add some new options.

Similarly, use string "EC PARAMETERS" instead of "ECDSA PARAMETERS"
in 'PEM' format.

Fix ec_asn1.c (take into account the desired conversion form).

'make update'.

Submitted by: Nils Larsch

Submitted by: jufi@nerdnet.de
Reviewed by:
PR: 138

This completes PR 123

This is due to weird Borland compilers.
Part of PR 123

Make sure to use the predefined PERL.
Submitted by: Bernhard Simon <bs@bsws.zid.tuwien.ac.at>
Reviewed by:
PR:

PR: 75

Do file copying in term of perl statements instead of using cp.
Part of PR: 75

and make some appropriate changes to the EC library.

Submitted by: Nils Larsch

PR: 81

version determined by "config" instead.

0.9.7-stable libeay.num

Deal with that by testing any available pod2man and using it if appropriate,
and falling back to util/pod2man.pl if none was found.

PR: 30

Fix Mingw32 asm build: use the Unix
bignum assembly method of bn-586.pl
and co-586.pl which (for some reason)
VC++ doesn't use.

Notified by Bernd Matthes <bernd.matthes@gemplus.com>

0.9.7-stable.

Submitted by: Nils Larsch <nla@trustcenter.de>