SE050: Openssl Engine reference key

[ninomedj]

Hi,

Im reading the SE050 Openssl engine doc, and i don't really understand the concept of the reference key, how is it generated and how is it used in the TLS handshake, do we call the SE050 in any way or not? and is there a doc that explain this concept in details?

Thank you.

[Kan_Li]

Hi @ninomedj ,

The reference key is a reference to the private key provisioned in the secure element, and can be used by the openssl engine , you know  ,  the private key cannot be extracted out from the Secure Element, so we have this solution to populate the OpenSSL Key data structure with only a reference to the Private Key inside the Secure Element instead of the actual Private Key.  We provide a doc included in the MW for this topic, please kindly refer to "simw-top/doc/sss/plugin/openssl/scripts/readme.html" for more details.

Hope that makes sense,

Have a great day,
Kan

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