Dear sirs, I have been using openssl for some personal home-use encryption, and recently overwrote an input file while using openssl bf accidentally because bash's autocompletion put in the input file's name when I started typing the same name (minus bf at the end) for the output and I carelessly hit enter.
For me it was not a big issue since those files were recoverable from elsewhere but there are probably people using openssl for more important things and they might have a serious problem if such a thing happened. So I request that openssl bf and other such openssl commands must check whether the input and output filenames are same and in such case give the user a warning and ask whether the user wants the output file to have the same name by deleting the input file after processing. If yes, then use a temporary file name till processing is done and then delete the input file and do something like mv tempfile origfile. If no, then abort. Since this is not a technical problem but an interface feature request I did not include the make report output etc (since I am using a pre-built openssl from my distro). Thank you. Shriramana Sharma. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
