> [[email protected] - Wed May 27 10:47:46 2009]:
> 
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 14:20 +0200, David Woodhouse via RT wrote:
> > I use the OpenSSL 'UI' abstraction to call back into a GTK+ program and
> > handle user interaction that way.
> > 
> > When asked for a passphrase for a certificate, there is a minimum length
> > of 4 characters (MIN_LENGTH). But although that information ought to be
> > conveyed to the UI code through UI_get_result_minsize(), that doesn't
> > seem to be done correctly.
> > 
> > So when I enter a passphrase which is too short, we just get a line of
> > output to stderr (of our GUI program) followed by another request for
> > the passphrase. This is suboptimal, so this patch provides
> > EVP_read_pw_string_min() and makes PEM_default_callback() use it. I
> > didn't just add the extra argument to EVP_read_pw_string() because that
> > has quite far-reaching effects.
> > 
> > Now my GUI program doesn't show me the 'OK' button until I've managed to
> > bash out enough characters on the keyboard.
> > 
> > Patch applies to both 0.9.8 branch and HEAD/1.0.0.
> 
> Ping?
> 

Patch applied (finally!) to 1.0.0 and HEAD.

Steve.
-- 
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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