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Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Maxim Dounin
November 10, 2014 10:12AM
Hello!

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Thomas Calderon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is someone else interested in providing feedback for my patch ?

Dmitrii's patch is currently a primary candidate for inclusion. I
agree with Piotr - it looks much better as it doesn't introduce
additional dependencies and more configuration directives to do
the same thing.

> Regards,
>
> Thomas.
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Thomas Calderon <calderon.thomas@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Piotr,
> >
> > I was not aware that some efforts were ongoing to use PKCS#11 devices with
> > nginx.
> > However, my experience with OpenSSL engine support is that the code is
> > dusty, rather limited and relies on external configuration files.
> > Dmitrii's approach requires to stack the OpenSSL engine code and OpenSC's
> > engine_pkcs11 which ends-up loading the real PKCS#11 middleware.
> > OpenSSL tends to perform multiple engine initialization which can confuse
> > the PKCS#11 shared library. Using the engine section in openssl.cnf ties
> > you up with a system-wide defined middleware.
> >
> > I would rather advocate for a more direct and self-contained approach.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Thomas Calderon.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Piotr Sikora <piotr@cloudflare.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Thomas,
> >>
> >> > This patch leverages PKCS#11 support in nginx http module using libp11.
> >> > This allows the private key to be stored in a dedicated hardware (or
> >> > software) component.
> >>
> >> Dmitrii Pichulin is already working on (IMHO) much better way to
> >> handle PKCS#11 via OpenSSL engines:
> >> http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2014-August/005740.html
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Piotr Sikora
> >>
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> >>
> >
> >

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[PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Thomas Calderon 2728 November 03, 2014 11:52AM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Piotr Sikora 622 November 03, 2014 04:52PM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Thomas Calderon 532 November 03, 2014 05:32PM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Thomas Calderon 564 November 10, 2014 09:56AM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Maxim Dounin 463 November 10, 2014 10:12AM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Thomas Calderon 527 November 10, 2014 10:38AM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Dmitrii Pichulin 503 November 10, 2014 10:50AM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Thomas Calderon 522 November 10, 2014 10:58AM

Re: [PATCH] Add PKCS#11 support to nginx http module

Dmitrii Pichulin 642 November 11, 2014 05:08AM



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