OpenSSL provider replacement for ENGINE_load_private_key

[Tomas Mraz]

On Sun, 2021-12-12 at 00:39 +0200, Graham Leggett via openssl-users
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The ENGINE API is deprecated in favour of the new Provider API.
> 
> What is the provider equivalent function that replaces
> ENGINE_load_private_key()?

One option would be for a provider to provide provider-storemgmt
implementation to load a key from its special URI. You'd then use
OSSL_STORE from the application to load a private key from that special
URI.

Another, rather simplistic, approach would be to use the
EVP_PKEY_fromdata() function. In that case you'd have to know what the
key algorithm are you using. You'd then use EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_from_name
with query properties to include "provider=your_provider" and the
params used with EVP_PKEY_fromdata() would contain just the special id
parameter that the provider would use to identify the private key from
the device.

> Regards,
> Graham
> —
> 

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Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL