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Golo Roden
Golo Roden

Reputation: 150902

Different approaches for accessing OpenSSL from Node.js

I am looking for a way to integrate OpenSSL and Node.js for a while now.

My goals are:

Now the options I have considered are:

Question #1: As I have written I do not have the slightest idea on how access the OpenSSL library directly that comes bundled with Node.js. How would I approach this?

At the moment, I stick with using the binary as a child process. Unfortunately, this requires that all the things such as private keys and so on are either given as files (which I explicitly want to avoid), or that I hand over everything using /dev/stdin (which does not work on Windows).

Question #2: How could I deal with this? Would a solution to #1 solve this issue, too?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1628

Answers (1)

smremde
smremde

Reputation: 1905

The answer to question #1 is that you cannot. Without bindings, you can only access the functions exposed by nodejs.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way work around for /dev/stdin in windows. Namedpipes would be an option but nodejs does not support them. You may be able to have nodejs launch openssl.exe in interactive mode and send commands through stdin, and read the output through stdout but this seems very inefficient.

So the answer is question #2 is that you cannot deal with the windows problem.

Writing your won binding seems to be the only option. It's actually not so difficult - something I'm sure you could get collaborators to help with.

Upvotes: 2

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