In message <da958b9e865a4268b95fd3e0b0774...@usma1ex-dag1mb1.msg.corp.akamai.com> on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:42:35 +0000, "Salz, Rich" <rs...@akamai.com> said:
rsalz> > dwmw2> It should work out what the contents are for *itself*. Whether rsalz> > dwmw2> they be PEM, DER, PKCS#n, TPM-wrapped blobs, or anything else. rsalz> rsalz> I disagree with this approach, but that's just my opinion. I am worried about "keep trying something until it works" because you'll get strange errors you can't decode, 'only allow N tries' devices will lock you out, and the order in which you try things could result in needless long delays. rsalz> rsalz> But don't let that stop you. I *think* the guessing part is just about the step of loading the file content and transparently understanding what type of content it is. That's basically looking at a bunch of bytes and recognising it for what it is. When that's done, the trial and error phase is over, and for stuff that libcrypto has support for, libcrypto will be able to act, deterministically. >From the application point of view, this would be just one call, but we are talking OpenSSL internals now, aren't we? David, correct me if I got you wrong. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Levitte levi...@openssl.org OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/ -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
