Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] evmctl: Implement support for EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2021-08-27 21:37:46
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2021-08-27 21:37:46
[Cc: Vitaly] On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 09:45 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> If the user did not use the --pass option to provide a key password, get the key password from the EVMCTL_KEY_PASSWORD environment variable. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Thanks, Stefan. Vitaly, I'm not sure that there's any benefit of using secure heap for a password stored as an environment variable, but it needs to at least be documented. thanks, Mimi