Hello!
Am 23.03.2007 um 20:01 schrieb Marco Roeland:
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.
I compiled the 0.9.9 snapshot, resulting in a binary that has the
same behaviour (growing in RAM very much). Do you know how to enable
this experimental code and if this feature is included in the openssl
command line tool?
Greetings,
Harald
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