On Wed, Jan 11, 2006, Amir Yiron wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I need my embedded application to be capable of creating a CA and creating 
> SSL certificate.
> My operating system is eCos, which means I don't have shell or any scripts, 
> and I can't run utilities (However, I have a file system!).
> I can only use a C interface.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to do what the 'openssl' utility does - just by calling 
> OpenSSL library C functions.
> e.g. I want to generate the CA root certificate and key,
> so instead of calling:
>       openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa -out cacert.pem -outform PEM -days 1825
> I want to do it in C code, probably by one of the following ways:
> 1. call the main code of the openssl utility as a function, and prepare an 
> appropriate arg/argc arguments vector, or
> 2. call directly the specific C function for the specific openssl subcommand 
> ('req' in this case) with appropriate parameters.
> 
> Note:
> - I can't use Unix specific APIs like getenv();
> - command execution cannot be interactive (command arguments and 
> configuration files have to supply all required parameters).
> 
> 

The example code in demos/x509/mkcert.c would be a good starting point.

Steve.
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