I use openssl inside an emacs shell window. Emacs runs the tty with echo off,
collects the line I'm typing (letting me edit it with emacs commands), then
sends the whole line when I hit enter. Since the line as I typed it is already
on the screen, I don't need the tty to echo it, or I'll see two copies.
When openssl reads a pass phrase, it turns off echo. That's a good thing, in
general. (Emacs recognizes the password prompt, and collects the password in a
separate window, masking by echoing asterisk for each character, and sends the
pass phrase to the tty when collected.)
But then, since, without, apparently, checking, it believes that it turned echo
off, openssl unconditionally turns echo on. This means my subsequent commands
(or inputs) appear twice, until I run "stty -echo".
A user of a half duplex terminal (if one can still find any) would be similarly
offended.
What is needed is for openssl to record the state of the echo flag before
turning it off, and then, after the pass phrase is read, only turn it back on
if it was on before.
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