[openssl-dev] [RFC 0/2] Proposal for seamless handling of TPM based RSA keys in openssl

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 13:48 +0100, Richard Levitte wrote:
> Mm...  I'm not sure I agree with the method, passing a BIO for the
> key_id.  I would much rather have seen a patch where OpenSSL's PEM
> module is tought to recognise 'BEGIN TSS KEY BLOB', pull out the blob
> from it, securing it somehow (since key_id is expected to be be NUL
> terminated) and pass that to the engine.

Agreed.

> My vote goes to a URI based spec rather than bastardising PEM files.
> I understand this kinda throws years of developmemt out the window,
> but there you have it.

I think we need both. We need the URI for the keys stored *in* the TPM
where we just need to reference them. And we need (non-bastardised) PEM
files with TPM-wrapped key blobs. The latter is what the engine
supports right now (by filename only).


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dwmw2
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