Hey thanks all for the reply. Stephen: Yes i have to do client authentication, Is there some sample available that demonstrates how can i use capi engine for the same? Thanks.
// Harshvir On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org>wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, Harshvir Sidhu wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I am trying to read Certificates and Private Key from Windows > > Certificate Store and then using them in OpenSSL. I am able to read > > Certificates but i am having trouble with reading Private Key. Have > anyone > > done this before, any pointers will be great. Thanks. > > > > Depends on what you want to do with the key. If you want to use it for > SSL/TLS > client authentication then you can use the CryptoAPI ENGINE to pick an > appropriate certficate and key and use them directly. You just have to set > the > SSL client authentication ENGINE to "capi". > > For other purposes you can load the private key from the capi ENGINE using > ENGINE_load_private_key(). The string you pass by default is a substring of > the > certificate name e.g. if it has CN=steve then "steve" will do. > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. > Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >
