[stunnel-users] Passphrase validation

Vasil Dimov vd at datamax.bg
Thu Jun 23 09:15:57 CEST 2005


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On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:39:54PM +0200, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> 
...
> operation, there is little (if any) actual security benefit from using a 
> non-null passphrase and storing it in a separate file; however, some 
> software (e.g., Java) does work that way, and I don't see any harm in 
...

Having encrypted private_key.pem and a plain text file
private_key.pem.passphrase which contains the encryption password really
does not make any sense. Ofcourse both files should be chown root and
chmod 400.

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