On Friday March 23rd 2007 at 18:55 Harald Latzko wrote: > can anybody even confirm that encrypting files via "openssl smime" > command consumes very much memory?
Yes. The PKCS7_encrypt(3ssl) function needs to hold all the data in memory as specified in the BUGS section of its man page. As far as I know this is independent from using an engine or not. Sometimes, depending if your application allows this, compressing before encrypting can help somewhat. In the 0.9.9 snapshots of OpenSSL there is experimental code to fix this limitation. -- Marco Roeland ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
