[openssl-dev] [RFC v2 2/2] pem: load engine keys

Benjamin Kaduk bkaduk at akamai.com
Wed Dec 7 16:53:14 UTC 2016


On 12/06/2016 10:42 PM, Richard Levitte wrote:
> The easiest was actually to rewrite PEM_read_bio_PrivateKey()
> entirely, so it solely uses the internal store_file functions I've
> provided.
> I wonder what kind of impact this would have on the community at
> large.
>

If you do that, please ensure that secure memory is used for the
temporary buffers involved in reading private key material (assuming
that some form of https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1700 gets merged).

-Ben
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