ossl_store-file - The store 'file' scheme loader
#include <openssl/store.h>
Support for the 'file' scheme is built into "libcrypto". Since files
come in all kinds of formats and content types, the 'file' scheme has its own
layer of functionality called "file handlers", which are used to try
to decode diverse types of file contents.
In case a file is formatted as PEM, each called file handler receives the PEM
name (everything following any '"-----BEGIN "') as well as possible
PEM headers, together with the decoded PEM body. Since PEM formatted files can
contain more than one object, the file handlers are called upon for each such
object.
If the file isn't determined to be formatted as PEM, the content is loaded in
raw form in its entirety and passed to the available file handlers as is, with
no PEM name or headers.
Each file handler is expected to handle PEM and non-PEM content as appropriate.
Some may refuse non-PEM content for the sake of determinism (for example,
there are keys out in the wild that are represented as an ASN.1 OCTET STRING.
In raw form, it's not easily possible to distinguish those from any other data
coming as an ASN.1 OCTET STRING, so such keys would naturally be accepted as
PEM files only).
When needed, the 'file' scheme loader will require a pass phrase by using the
UI_METHOD that was passed via
OSSL_STORE_open(). This pass
phrase is expected to be UTF-8 encoded, anything else will give an undefined
result. The files made accessible through this loader are expected to be
standard compliant with regards to pass phrase encoding. Files that aren't
should be re-generated with a correctly encoded pass phrase. See
passphrase-encoding(7) for more information.
ossl_store(7),
passphrase-encoding(7)
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