Sorry, you restarted the debate.
What do you hope to accomplish by reading the password from a file?
Either host access control is good enough, or it's not.
If host access control (e.g. file permissions) is good enough, you can leave
the key unencrypted.
If host access control is not good enough to protect an unencrypted key,
it's not good enough to protect the password that will decrypt the key.
If I'm missing something, please point it out to me.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe WILLEM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 10:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: An old thread - PEM pass phrase for smime signature
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to restart this thread and debate.
>
> I am using the smime feature of openssl. I want to automate
> some things, but I
> am stuck with the "Enter PEM pass phrase" prompt when I sign mails.
> I know that using an uncrypted private key might be helpful,
> but I whish to
> avoid this possibility.
>
> What I am thinking of is some way to read this password in a
> file (perhaps in an
> hashed form, that doesn't really matter for my use of it).
> Does anybody know how to do it or is there any sample code
> and/or patch
> available to get it work this way ?
>
>
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