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

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Mimi, Stefan,

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 05:37:35PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> [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.

I did not receive this patch nor it's in the git.

Thanks,

> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mimi



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