I've been debating in my head over the best way to call openssl from perl.
So far, what I am doing is calling it with 'system' and writing/reading
temporary files when there is no password involved, and opening it for
writing via a pipe when a password is used and passing it the password via
Thanks for the detailed reply!!
Actually I was going to post my code once I am done. It's basically two
perl modules, one is the interface to openssl, mainly ca specific functions
although I have a perl template for the ciphers as well, and the other one
is to handle writing out/retrieving the
