Re: Looking for config option to stop use of CryptoAPI (TSVN 1.7.1)

On 27.10.2011 20:18, Joel Jirak wrote:
>>
>> I would consider this a bug in your smartcard package. OpenSSL opens the
>> crypto store to see if there's a matching certificate for it to use
>> automatically. It does this without showing any UI. Your smartcard
>> software should respect that non-UI flag and only ask to insert the card
>> if the non-UI flag isn't passed to open the crypto store.
>>
>> However I can see that it might be difficult to get your smartcard
>> software getting fixed. Which means I'll have to patch OpenSSL so you
>> can force it to never open the crypto store.
>>
>> But this will take a while - patching OpenSSL isn't easy...
>>
>
> Wow, that'd be awesome if you can do it. I agree that it's probably a
> bug that the software doesn't respect the non-UI flag, but you're
> right that it would be difficult to get the smartcard software fixed.
>
> I understand it will take a while. I've looked at the OpenSSL code
> before, and it wasn't a pleasant experience!
>
> Thanks so much.

I've opened issue #119 for this:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=119

Stefan

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