On Thu, Aug 06, 2015, Reinier Torenbeek wrote: > I am interested in leveraging the following three functions: > > ENGINE_load_private_key() > ENGINE_load_public_key() > ENGINE_load_certificate() > > Unfortunately, the latter is missing. This was mentioned in a recent > thread on this list as well (see > http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users at openssl.org/msg77566.html). Is > it planned for any future release? > At some point yes but it's quite complex decided what the parameters should be: e.g. to lookup certificates matching one or more criteria. > The former two functions are present though and I was looking for their > EVP-level counterparts to access them in the proper way. Apparently, > those do not exist either. Previously, I was under the impression that > the EVP API exposes all engine-implemented functions. Are these > EVP_load_xxx functions missing from EVP because they are "todo in a > future release" or are they omitted by design? > The ENGINE_load*key functions rerturn an EVP_PKEY structure which can be used by EVP directly. There are other functions which can load an EVP_PKEY structure too like the PEM and PKCS12 functions. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org
