Re: OpenSSL engine and TPM usage.

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Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> 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.

From the viewpoint of hardware vendors the upgrade path is selling new
hardware. It's simply like that. Not very sustainable...

Ciao, Michael.

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