To expand on this question a little more, is it safe to just create one 
SSL_CTX* at initialization of my server that will be used each time a new 
client connects when i do SSL_new(ctx)?


Charles A. Barbe
Senior Software Engineer
Allworx, a Windstream company
245 East Main St | Rochester NY | 14604
charles.ba...@allworx.com | 585.421.5565

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Subject: Using single EVP_PKEY instance across multiple connections

Hi,

I have an implementation of a multi-threaded HTTP server that I wrote using 
OpenSSL version 1.0.1g. Currently, on initialization of the server, I load my 
private key from disk and store it in an EVP_PKEY pointer. Whenever I accept a 
new connection, I use that same pointer to an EVP_PKEY in my call to 
SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey. Is that safe or should I be copying my EVP_PKEY for 
each connection?

Thanks!

Charles A. Barbe
Senior Software Engineer
Allworx, a Windstream company
245 East Main St | Rochester NY | 14604
charles.ba...@allworx.com | 585.421.5565
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