On Wed, Apr 10, 2013, Ken Goldman wrote: > (The answer to this seems to be 'no', but the web posts were 5-10 > years old. Perhaps there's a better answer today.) > > I'm using openssl to emulate a TPM. The hardware device has an > abort feature, where the TPM driver can cancel a long command. The > driver wants to distinguish between a long command and a failure. > > Does openssl have any elegant way to cancel an RSA key generation > that's taking too long? > > The best I saw on the web is to do the key generation in another > thread. If the command is canceled, ignore the thread result.
At the EVP_PKEY level you can return 0 from the key generation callback to cancel the operation. See EVP_PKEY_set_cb(). Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
