>From my blog http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/

Free software Tokend above PKCS#11 (for Mac OS X)

Gemalto released the source code of its tokend.

Tokend

A tokend is a plugin for Mac OS X that links between the CDSA higher
layer and a smart card or other cryptographic device. See Smart Card
Services.

PKCS#11 Tokend

The goal of this tokend is to be able to use any PKCS#11 library in
CDSA and then with native Apple Applications (Mail, Safari, Key Chain,
File Vault, etc.)



No configuration

This tokend will try every PKCS#11 library present in the standard
directory /usr/lib/pkcs11/ and try to use them. You do not have to
configure a specific PKCS#11 library to use.

Source code

The source code is hosted by Apple in the smartcardservices on the
macosforge serveur. Direct access is at
http://smartcardservices.macosforge.org/trac/browser/trunk/Tokend/PKCS11

You can also find instructions to (re)build the Tokend project at
http://smartcardservices.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/documentation/building

License

The code is licensed under Apple Public Source License Version 2.0 as
the other tokend provided by Apple.

Compiled version

A compiled version can be found in the package installer provided by
Gemalto at http://www.gemalto.com/products/dotnet_card/resources/libraries.html.
Download the ".NET PKCS#11 libraries for Mac OS X" file.

The tokend is then installed as /System/Library/Security/tokend/PKCS11.tokend

Long term plan

The idea is to have this tokend provided by Apple in the next major
operating system (Mac OS X 10.7). And I have no idea when that will
happen. But I will let you know :-)

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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