[openssl.org #953] PKCS7: sign data without keeping it in the memory

Addressed in OpenSSL1.0 (finally) via PKCS7_PARTIAL and PKCS7_STREAM flags. -- Rich Salz, OpenSSL dev team; rs...@openssl.org __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List

Re: PKCS7: sign data without keeping it in the memory

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:44, Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote: PKCS7_sign() has the disadvantage that all signed data must be kept in memory. [...] /* we got the digest of the data, now create a PKCS#7 detached signed object... */ p7 = PKCS7_signHash(signer, key, other, pMD, caDigest, flags);

Re: PKCS7: sign data without keeping it in the memory

Hello Mathias, Mathias Brossard wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:44, Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote: PKCS7_sign() has the disadvantage that all signed data must be kept in memory. [...] /* we got the digest of the data, now create a PKCS#7 detached signed object... */ p7 = PKCS7_signHash(signer, key,

PKCS7: sign data without keeping it in the memory

Hello folks, I sent this mail in July but it was dropped (my email address changed...): PKCS7_sign() has the disadvantage that all signed data must be kept in memory. My patch addes a PKCS7_signHash() that allows cereating of a PKCS7 signed object just from the digest of the data. Intendet usage:

[openssl.org #953] PKCS7: sign data without keeping it in the memory

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