On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> A PKCS#11 module is just shared library, so if you have one compiled
> >> for Android, you could certainly use it from your native code. Or you
> >> can write a PKCS#11-backed JCE provider ala Java SE. I don't think there
> >> is any native support (helper libraries, etc.) for this in Android
> though.
> >>
>
> And then JB source code is released, and there is all this code that talks
> to a (proprietary) PKCS#11 module...


Yes, I believe you are referring to 4.1 implementation of the
android.security.KeyChain API which can return PrivateKeys backed by the
underlying keystore that can use PKCS#11 in it's implementation. There are
no plans for NDK interfaces to directly support PKCS#11.

-bri

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