[openssl-dev] [RFC 1/2] engine: add new flag based method for loading engine keys

Wed Nov 16 22:18:05 UTC 2016

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016, James Bottomley wrote:

> The assumption in all the current engine code is that key_id can be
> passed as something like a file name.

Well no it's a null terminated string whose meaning is engine specific. In
some cases it is a key ID, in others it is a more complex string indicating
multiple parameters.

Steve.
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