[openssl-dev] Using openssl with a remote private key

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Mar 17 22:30:17 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 22:22 +0000, Tigran Gyonjyan (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
wrote:
> Thank you for your responses, PKCS#11 could be the right way to go. I
> am hoping there is flexibility as per what functionality I want to
> delegate (just need the decrypt piece).
> If I had to implement a fully fledged PKCS#11 module that would be an
> overkill. I hope that's not the case?

You don't have to have the *cert* in PKCS#11. Only the key. A module to
implement that much can be fairly trivial.


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dwmw2

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