Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-09 Thread Ben Laurie
Corinne Dive-Reclus wrote: So far, the current ENGINE seems good to me. Your choice to hook only asymmetric operations seems reasonnable for a SSL implementation. OpenSSL is not an SSL implementation. That's one of the many things it does. If your hardware does other stuff, then

RE: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Corinne Dive-Reclus
February 2001 00:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ENGINE_load_key [snip] Corinne Dive-Reclus, Principal Software Engineer Baltimore Technologies, Focus 31, West Wing,Cleveland Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP2 7BW, England Tel: +44 (0) 1442 342600 Fax: +44 (0) 1442 347399

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Corinne Dive-Reclus [EMAIL PROTECTED] CDive If I need to follow some specific procedure to add a new type CDive of ENGINE hook to OpenSSL, let me know I will do it with CDive pleasure. Procedure to follow is: - if you'd like to see support for your hardware in OpenSSL, please

RE: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Corinne Dive-Reclus
-Original Message- From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 February 2001 10:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ENGINE_load_key From: Corinne Dive-Reclus [EMAIL PROTECTED] CDive If I need to follow

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Dr S N Henson
Corinne Dive-Reclus wrote: CDive Anyway, any help about key generation (no ENGINE hook CDive available? cannot dynamically create a key into an ENGINE ?) CDive and key management will be greatly appreciated. So far, we've extended the collection of engine hooks when there's

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Michael Ströder
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: CDive Even if the hardware is capable of symmetric operations, it is CDive probably to slow to go down to it to perform the operation. Depends. If it takes load away from the central CPU, it might be a good thing from that point of view, by increasing

RE: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Corinne Dive-Reclus
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Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: Dr S N Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] drh Then PEM_*_PrivateKey() should be able to handle it largely drh transparently and applications should be able to use the keys drh even if they aren't ENGINE aware. Uhmmm, applications that use ENGINE will have to be ENGINE aware enough to "load" the

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Michael [iso-8859-1] Ströder wrote: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: CDive Even if the hardware is capable of symmetric operations, it is CDive probably to slow to go down to it to perform the operation. Depends. If it takes load away from the

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Geoff Thorpe
Hi there, On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Dr S N Henson wrote: Personally I'd like to see symmetric support at some point. I like the idea of being able to increase security by not keeping secret keys in memory but only references to them. Unfortunately that's a bit tricky with OpenSSLs current EVP

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-08 Thread Dr S N Henson
Geoff Thorpe wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Dr S N Henson wrote: Personally I'd like to see symmetric support at some point. I like the idea of being able to increase security by not keeping secret keys in memory but only references to them. Unfortunately that's a bit tricky

ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-07 Thread Corinne Dive-Reclus
Hello, I am not sure to understand how this function works: - Do we load a key from a file into a hardware engine and what is the file format ? or - Do we load a key from a hardware engine into a file ? How has this file been

Re: ENGINE_load_key

2001-02-07 Thread Rob Neff
[snip] Corinne Dive-Reclus, Principal Software Engineer Baltimore Technologies, Focus 31, West Wing,Cleveland Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP2 7BW, England Tel: +44 (0) 1442 342600 Fax: +44 (0) 1442 347399 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website http://www.baltimore.com/ Just out of