Hi Alon, Thanks for all the PKCS#11 integration work you've spearheaded across the community.
You may have heard of p11-kit before. It tries to solve several problems with using PKCS#11 modules across the Desktop. In particular when multiple applications or libraries want to use the same PKCS#11 modules. Most importantly: * Coordinating initialization and finalizing. * A standard place to put configuration of which modules to load and how to load them. More documentation here: http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/p11-kit.html p11-kit can be used as a PKCS#11 module, and as such will integrate out of the box into anything that supports PKCS#11. So pkcs11-helper can already use p11-kit. I'm interested in integrating p11-kit more closely into pkcs11-helper. But I figured I'd talk with you before hacking. Some areas where integration could take place: * Allowing pkcs11-helper to load modules from a standard location. Does pkcs11-helper have a concept of a module registry? If not, this could be a nice addition provided by p11-kit. * Initializing modules via p11-kit so that refcounting, and pInitArgs stuff works if more than one app/library in the same process uses a PKCS#11 module. * Safe forking (pkcs11-helper already does this, but p11-kit forking stuff integrates with the initialization refcounting). Perhaps more? How do this sound? Cheers, Stef _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
