Re: OpenSSL and POP3 Integration Question

2002-01-21 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, > * The OpenSSL API does not offer a call to remove the private key > information from memory as long as any TLS functionality is still > set up. > (-> reminder: check, whether the memory overwritten when performing > SSL_free()/SSL_CTX_free()..) > To be compliant with RFC2246

Re: OpenSSL and POP3 Integration Question

2002-01-21 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:10:36AM -0700, Ben Schumacher wrote: > I am trying on integrating OpenSSL into a POP3 daemon that I've been > contributing to, and a security concern has come up that I hadn't > considered but has me curios. Basically, as with most POP3 daemons, > after authentication, t

OpenSSL and POP3 Integration Question

2002-01-20 Thread Ben Schumacher
Hello- I am trying on integrating OpenSSL into a POP3 daemon that I've been contributing to, and a security concern has come up that I hadn't considered but has me curios. Basically, as with most POP3 daemons, after authentication, the program forks an external process and does a setuid to the au