In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 26 May 2005 11:34:20 +0100, David Woodroffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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 ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
