[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>>>> Why would you like to use the CFB mode?
>>>> Because that's what the current (non-NSS) code does. I'd rather just
>>>> port, not change, the code.
>>> Is the CFB mode used in your implementation of some standard?
>>> Just curious.
>> No, it is not a standard.
> But it is used by SNMP
> http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3826

Well, that's close enough to "standard" for our purposes.
NSS doesn't implement SNMP, but if an SNMP implementation wants to use
NSS's softoken, perhaps NSS's softoken ought to implement it.
It would mean implementing a new set of PKCS#11 "mechanisms", IINM.

-- 
Nelson B
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