crypto: don't build hardware engines

Compile out hardware engines. Most are stubs that dynamically load the real driver but that poses a security liability when an attacker is able to create a malicious DLL in one of the default search paths. Backport of nodejs-private/node-private#58 PR-URL: nodejs-private/node-private#69 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <[email protected]>
nodejs · Sep 27, 2016 · 71e4285 · 71e4285
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diff --git a/deps/openssl/openssl.gyp b/deps/openssl/openssl.gyp
@@ -1099,6 +1099,11 @@
       # Microsoft's IIS, which seems to be ignoring whole ClientHello after
       # seeing this extension.
       'OPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS',
+
+      # Compile out hardware engines.  Most are stubs that dynamically load
+      # the real driver but that poses a security liability when an attacker
+      # is able to create a malicious DLL in one of the default search paths.
+      'OPENSSL_NO_HW',
     ],
     'direct_dependent_settings': {
       'defines': [