In message <
[hidden email]> on Thu, 26 May 2005 11:34:20 +0100, David Woodroffe <
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dwoodroffe> I am currently trying to use openSSL with an nCipher HSM
dwoodroffe> for signing and verfication. At the moment we are using
dwoodroffe> the with-nfast predicate for the application to access the
dwoodroffe> keys and this works fine. However this asks for a
dwoodroffe> passphrase interactively which we do not want rather we
dwoodroffe> would pass it in at startup from an initialisation file
dwoodroffe> (encrypted). I also noticed ENGINE_load_private_key etc
dwoodroffe> use a UI_method prompting for passphrase. Is there any way
dwoodroffe> of initialising the engine and keys etc without any user
dwoodroffe> interaction?
Look for struct pw_cb_data in apps/apps.h and the functions ui_open(),
ui_read(), ui_write(), ui_close(), setup_ui_method(),
destroy_ui_method() and password_callback() in apps/apps.c in the
OpenSSL source code and let yourself get inspired :-).
Cheers,
Richard
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