Steve, Thanks much for the reply. I did not realize that EVP_PKEY structures can have their own callbacks. It's a few extra hoops, but worth it!
Thanks, Karthik On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013, Karthik Krishnamurthy wrote: > >> OpenSSL provides multiple SSL objects to be created from a single SSL_CTX >> object and each SSL object can use a different privatekey file >> (SSL_use_PrivateKey_file). >> >> Given this flexibility, I don't see an option to have a password callback >> function per SSL object. The callbacks are provided only on the SSL_CTX >> object. Is there a work around to this other than creating an SSL_CTX >> object for every privatekey file that needs to be added in the application. >> > > You can use whatever method you want to obtain the EVP_PKEY structure itself, > e.g. the PEM functions. Then you can pass that key using SSL_use_PrivateKey() > > 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 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
