Re: [opensc-devel] Externally generated keys]

2008-03-27 Thread Marc W. Abel
Thanks for all the very kind and helpful responses! Responding to Timothy's humor, I am in fact VERY pro-U.S. Government. More than I can reveal in this forum. But with that said, sometimes mistakes are made and sometimes policies and I do not agree. One thing I can reveal, as it's general knowl

Re: [opensc-devel] some build questions about OpenSC/pam_pkcs11 module

2008-03-27 Thread Huie-Ying Lee
Peter Stuge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:27:02PM -0700, Huie-Ying Lee wrote: >> I found that Solaris doesn't support "automake", "aclocal" and >> "libtoolize" commands currently > > I suggest that you install automake, autoconf and libtool in order to > work more efficiently with this and m

Re: [opensc-devel] Externally generated keys

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Koch
Hi Marc: > From the FAQ at http://www.opensc-project.org/faq.html > > "Can I store my ssh private key on a smart card? > > "Most people prefer to use a smart card with a key that was generated on > the card and cannot ever leave it. In fact everyone seems to do that. So > while it might be tech

Re: [opensc-devel] Externally generated keys

2008-03-27 Thread Timothy J Miller
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Marc W. Abel wrote: > > From the FAQ at http://www.opensc-project.org/faq.html > > "Can I store my ssh private key on a smart card? > > "Most people prefer to use a smart card with a key that was > generate

Re: [opensc-devel] Externally generated keys

2008-03-27 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Hi Marc, seems to me that the FAQ is out of date; openssh private keys are in RSA format, which can easily be stored on a smart card/token. You can then use this key with its corresponding SSH public part using Alon Bar-Lev's openssh patch. I must add that I have not tried this myself ;-) chee

[opensc-devel] Externally generated keys

2008-03-27 Thread Marc W. Abel
Good morning all, I apologize in advance if what I ask has been recently discussed. I'm a newcomer, and it appears that I would have to download several dozen tarballs to get up to speed on this list. >From the FAQ at http://www.opensc

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenCT does not compile on Mac OS X

2008-03-27 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Am Sonntag, 23. März 2008 21:36:57 schrieb Bruno Harbulot: > Perhaps the following question should be on the users list... > I was intending to try OpenCT on OSX to see if it could handle an eToken > in the same way as it makes it work on Linux. I can't get it to work on > OSX, but I'm not sure if