TS_RESP_CTX_NEW(3SSL)

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✨ TS_RESP_CTX_NEW 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the TS_RESP_CTX_new_ex, TS_RESP_CTX_new, and TS_RESP_CTX_free page — this is the OpenSSL 3SSL manual, and it's literally all about making (and yeeting) your very own Timestamp response context object 🎀

It's giving "birth, life, and graceful deletion of a context struct" and honestly? Iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

include the header first, no skipping 🫶

#include <openssl/ts.h>

TS_RESP_CTX *TS_RESP_CTX_new_ex(OSSL_LIB_CTX *libctx, const char *propq);
TS_RESP_CTX *TS_RESP_CTX_new(void);
void TS_RESP_CTX_free(TS_RESP_CTX *ctx);

three functions, three vibes, one struct. let's get into it 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what actually happens here? These functions create a response context — and that context is the whole point, because it's what you use for generating responses. Slay.

  • TS_RESP_CTX_new_ex() — this one allocates and initializes a TS_RESP_CTX structure for you, and it takes a library context of libctx plus a property query of propq. The library context and the property query are what decide which providers supply the fetched algorithms. Very "you pick the plug, I'll handle the algorithms" energy ✨
  • TS_RESP_CTX_new() — basically TS_RESP_CTX_new_ex()'s chill little sibling, except it sets the library context and property query to NULL. Which means the default (NULL) library context gets used for any operations that need algorithm fetches. Simple. Clean. No cap.
  • TS_RESP_CTX_free() — this is the cleanup queen 👑 she frees the TS_RESP_CTX object ctx. And if the argument is NULL? She does literally nothing. The way she's unbothered fr fr 💅

⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

If the allocation flops, TS_RESP_CTX_new_ex() and TS_RESP_CTX_new() return NULL. If it doesn't flop? You get a pointer to the newly allocated structure. That's it, that's the whole deal 💀

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

  • The function TS_RESP_CTX_new_ex() was added in OpenSSL 3.0 — so if you're on something older, bestie, she is not there for you 😭

Copyright 2021-2024 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

real talk: always read the license, it's not optional and it's not a vibe check you wanna fail 🙈

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

(this page's run is done — but your timestamp-adventuring era has just begun 🧚 go touch some other OpenSSL manuals, bestie)

and that's the page!! this was from version 4.0.3, dated 2026-09-29, in the TS_RESP_CTX_NEW(3SSL) family. drink water, free your contexts, and remember — NULL in, nothing done, that's the rule 😌💖

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