Hello,
I am interested in writing Java(TM) applications/applets that
access cryptographic services on smart cards. OCF provides a
number of interfaces to cryptographic services in opencard.core
and opencard.opt., and CardService implementers can extend
these interfaces to accomodate various card capabilities.
There are many example Java applications that use these
interfaces directly.
However, it seems to make more sense for Java applications to
use the higher level cryptographic interfaces of the JCA/JCE
whenever possible since these are a core part of the Java
security architecture. The obvious way to do this is to
construct cryptographic service provider packages that serve as
bridges between the CipherSPI of JCA/JCE and different OCF
CardService implementations.
At the RSA 2000 conference last week I asked Jan Luehe
(Sun/JavaSoft) if he knew of any efforts along these lines, and
he said that he did not. I find this surprising, since JCA/JCE
are the standard Java crypto APIs, and OCF is the preferred
mechanism for talking to smart cards in Java (including those
with cryptographic capabilities). Is anyone aware of attempts
to build JCA/JCE compliant CSPs that use OCF CardService
interfaces?
Regards, jd
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