In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:14:25 -0600, "Douglas E. Engert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
deengert> The OpenSSL ENGINE facilities had ENGINE_load_private_key, deengert> and ENGINE_load_public_key, but do not have ENGINE_load_certificate. deengert> deengert> When the ENGINE is used by an application, such as the deengert> Heimdal PKINIT code to use a smartcard to get a Kerberos deengert> ticket the application does not have easy access to the deengert> certificate stored on the smartcard. In 0.9.8-dev, there's a potentially better mechanism that I started a while ago (more than a year), called a STORE, which also comes with ENGINE support. However, because of lack of funding, I haven't found the time to finish up (it's no small project). I hope to get the opportunity to feel financially safe enough to be able to finish that module. It would make it possible to retrieve (or retreive a handle to) quite a number of different types of data from any store, smart cards, SQLite databasees, LDAP repositories and whatnot. I could add ENGINE_load_certificate(), but that would (hopefully) just be a temporary solution before the grander solution (yes, I'm boasting it :-)) is firmly in place. deengert> The Heimdal code needs the certificate, as well as the key. deengert> Currently the certificate must be loaded off the card deengert> in a separate step, then passed in as a file. Hmm, I imagine that ENGINE_load_certificate() would still be a separate step. I hope that's not a problem... Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
