Hello,

Martin Paljak wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Aleksey Samsonov wrote:
>> "Rutoken S" [1] doesn't support on-board RSA (as opposed to "Rutoken ECP"). 
>> "Rutoken ECP" [2] have on-board RSA (with RSA keys up to 2048 bits), GOST R 
>> 34.10-2001 (public-key cryptography), GOST 34.11-94 (hash) and GOST 28147-89 
>> (symmetric-key algorithm).
>> The file card-rutoken.c provides support "Rutoken S". And this code worked 
>> on "old scheme OpenSC". Already now ("new scheme") all old functionality 
>> aren't working at "Rutoken S". Example: software key generation was removed 
>> [3].
> Right. Software RSA support for Rutoken S should then be removed.

I'm going to cleanup code.

> OpenSC should be a gateway to key operations in hardware. 
> 
> Maybe, just maybe, it would make sense to support "data objects over PKCS#11" 
> for using smart cards like small secure flash drives (like TrueCrypt wants to 
> use PKCS#11) but key material should never be automagically extracted into 
> host memory and the user of OpenSC (PKCS#11) left the impression that key 
> operations are taking place inside the token, when in fact they are not.

I think, support data objects make sense. I will make cleanup Rutoken S 
code.

Thanks
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