Re: OpenSSL engine and TPM usage.

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Jakob Bohm <jb-openssl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >> I wanted to know when we use engine instance for encyrption/decryption
    >> operation, can it be done selectively?

    > Please beware that many TPM chips were recently discovered to contain a
    > broken RSA key generation algorithm, so public/private key pairs keys
    > to be stored in the TPM should probably be generated off-chip (using
    > the OpenSSL software key generator) and imported into the chip,
    > contrary to what would have been best security practice without this
    > firmware bug.

wow, further evidence that everything needs an upgrade path.

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