Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] evmctl: Implement support for EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable

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[Cc: Vitaly]

On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 09:45 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If the user did not use the --pass option to provide a key password,
> get the key password from the EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Stefan.

Vitaly, I'm not sure that there's any benefit of using secure heap for
a password stored as an environment variable, but it needs to at least
be documented.

thanks,

Mimi




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