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| author | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2018-06-05 15:58:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org> | 2018-06-07 13:25:03 +0200 |
| commit | 0189bf2bbe30d4fa710fe7440ed7f3d8eab039c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c26dcb74f6bb0c57cc09d4e570a7bb58a427aa7 /doc/man7/ossl_store.pod | |
| parent | 10bda8f8dd359b3db39a5157be0e72afe9f05eea (diff) | |
Document UTF-8 expectation for pass phrases passed to OSSL_STORE
After some discussion, it was concluded that the better idea is to
stipulate that the pass phrases passed to the OSSL_STORE API are
expected to be UTF-8 encoded, and that all objects made accessible
through OSSL_STORE URIs should adhere to this expectation (at the
discretion of the loaders).
Email ref:
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-project/2018-June/000771.html
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6416)
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diff --git a/doc/man7/ossl_store.pod b/doc/man7/ossl_store.pod index efa47806c7..6e75abd314 100644 --- a/doc/man7/ossl_store.pod +++ b/doc/man7/ossl_store.pod @@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ dynamically from the calling application or from a loadable engine. Support for the 'file' scheme is built into C<libcrypto>. See L<ossl_store-file(7)> for more information. +=head2 UI_METHOD and pass phrases + +The B<OSS_STORE> API does nothing to enforce any specific format or +encoding on the pass phrase that the B<UI_METHOD> provides. However, +the pass phrase is expected to be UTF-8 encoded. The result of any +other encoding is undefined. + =head1 EXAMPLES =head2 A generic call |