Am Sonntag 18 Juli 2010, um 00:16:15 schrieb Stef Walter: > Is there a spec around for specifying to applications which PKCS#11 > modules to load and how to initialize them? > > I'm thinking something along the lines of PAM conf files, where you can > specify which PAM modules different applications load. > > We're working hard on PKCS#11 support in GNOME, and rather than coming > up with something like this on our own, perhaps someone has already > given this some thought?
I think it could be great, if a middle layer API for applications was created. Why should all the details of crypto layers (like what algorithms you support in ssl connections, where your root certificates are, what certificates you have etc.) implemented again and again for each new application? microsoft has crypto API that works as such a middle layer, and apple has some middle layer too. so I think a middle layer could be great for gnome, kde, freedesktop, whoever-wants-to-use-it. and it could be build with smart cards in mind, so opensc and other pkcs#11 modules could be integrated somehow. but I know next to nothing about gnome or kde or any gui app and how a middle layer could look like, so not sure if I could be of any help there. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
