linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/1] Load OpenSSL config if present in sign-file.c

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Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 09:36:45 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Antony Vennard <antony@...nard.ch>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Load OpenSSL config if present in sign-file.c

On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 10:23 +0100, Antony Vennard wrote:
> On 03/02/17 10:07, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > You should[n't] need any of the special OpenSSL config horridness.

> Ah, I did not even know that was a thing. I do now. That looks like a
> much neater solution. Forget this patch then :)

As a general rule, this is true of *every* well-behaved application in
a Linux system.

If you have a PKCS#11 provider configured with a p11-kit .module file,
then it should automatically be usable just by providing a suitable
RFC7512 PKCS#11 URI in place of a filename.

If you find any application which can't do that on Fedora, file a bug
and Cc me. It's violating the packaging guidelines.

Other distributions may catch up in a decade or two (hey, I hear Debian
might even get coherent SSL trust settings by 2020...)
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