From: Ben Elliston <bje@air.net.au>
Subject: Re: S/MIME and encrypted certificates
Date: 22 Jun 2003 11:33:47 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3he6iki9w.fsf@mailhub.air.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ci39h2w.fsf@gvdnet.dk>
Martin Christensen <knightsofspamalot-factotum@gvdnet.dk> writes:
> Simon> (Environment variables may not be the best idea though,
> Simon> improvements are welcome.
> Passing the passphrase as a command-line argument seems the most
> straight-forward way of doing so. Here, have a diff. :-) I've done
> some rudimentary testing, and it seems to work fine.
Using a command line argument is even worse, as other users can spot
your openssl processes in the process table and will then know your
passphrase.
Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-22 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87d6h7bf7c.fsf@gvdnet.dk>
2003-06-21 20:53 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-21 22:55 ` Martin Christensen
2003-06-22 1:33 ` Ben Elliston [this message]
[not found] ` <87y8zu94o0.fsf@gvdnet.dk>
2003-06-22 11:40 ` Simon Josefsson
[not found] ` <ilusmq2jq8s.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
2003-06-23 1:45 ` Jesper Harder
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