Request for generic engine support

Peter Stuge stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org
Thu May 8 03:29:42 EST 2008


On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:44:01AM +0000, Mccue, Richard Alan wrote:
> Would it be possible to add generic engine support to OpenSSH?

Hm.


> One use in particular would be to support TCP forwarding for secure
> mail server connections and similar applications.

Sorry, can you please clarify this a bit?

I already use OpenSSH to secure TCP connections through -L and -R.


> Another approach would be to take advantage of the OpenSSL
> config(5) configuration file mechanism.

How do you feel about PKCS#11 ?


//Peter


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