Re: [openssl-users] General approach for keeping a client cert from openssl

2016-12-20 Thread Michael Wojcik
> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-boun...@openssl.org] On Behalf > Of Andy Green > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 19:03 > > On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 10:21 -0800, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > > >   There exists what is called an ENGINE interface to offload > > cryptographic operations to a

Re: [openssl-users] General approach for keeping a client cert from openssl

2016-12-19 Thread Andy Green
On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 10:21 -0800, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > You cannot keep the certificate from OpenSSL, as that's the piece > that you share with the remote side.  This contains the public key, > and the information bound to that public key by the CA. Right. > However, you can keep the private

Re: [openssl-users] General approach for keeping a client cert from openssl

2016-12-19 Thread Kyle Hamilton
You cannot keep the certificate from OpenSSL, as that's the piece that you share with the remote side. This contains the public key, and the information bound to that public key by the CA. However, you can keep the private key from being seen by OpenSSL. There exists what is called an ENGINE