Re: [PATCH 1/2] http.c: prompt for SSL client certificate password

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Stenberg<daniel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
>
>> It would be ideal if you can inspect the certificate and decide if you
>> need to ask for decrypting password before using it (and otherwise you don't
>> ask). If you can't do that, probably you can introduce a config var that
>> says "this certificate is encrypted", and bypass your new code if that
>> config var isn't set.
>
> Is this really a common setup? Using an unencrypted private key sounds like
> a really bad security situation to me. The certificate is never encrupted,
> the passphrase is for the key.
>
For SSH using unencrypted private key is very common for scripting and
cron jobs. For HTTPS situation looks like being worse since there is
no analog of ssh-agent that covers at least some of scripting
scenarios. Do we want to disable scripting for HTTPS?

Constantine
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