Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-15 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
So Stef, How do you want to proceed? On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > 2011/8/4 Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE : >> Le lundi 01 août 2011 à 14:11 +0200, Stef Walter a écrit : >>>  * Initializing modules via p11-kit so that refcounting, and >>>    pInitArgs stuff works if more than

Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-05 Thread Stef Walter
On 08/04/2011 11:30 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: >>> * Coordinating initialization and finalizing. >> You referencing a bad implemented application that is use PKCS#11 in >> two independent places. A practical solution is to fix the library >> implementation (such as GnuTLS) to provide some

Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-04 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On 08/04/2011 06:57 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Hello, In gnutls we dropped our own PKCS #11 back-end based on pakchois for p11-kit. I try to contribute to the discussion based on this experience. > pkcs11-helper targets developers who like to introduce PKCS#11 into > their application, especially

Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-04 Thread Anders Rundgren
On 2011-08-04 18:58, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> So if p11-kit solves this multiple-access issue, this would great. >> > This is core issue of OpenSC and should be solved within the core of OpenSC. > Aka - stateless card access. Another solution is to use key-containers that for standard cryptographic

Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
2011/8/4 Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE : > Le lundi 01 août 2011 à 14:11 +0200, Stef Walter a écrit : >>  * 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-h

Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello Stef, I think that each project is targeting a different set of problems. I am fully opened for discussion, but this is how I see things: pkcs11-helper targets developers who like to introduce PKCS#11 into their application, especially for smartcard. It allows to minimize the user interact

Re: [opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-04 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le lundi 01 août 2011 à 14:11 +0200, Stef Walter a écrit : > * 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 >f

[opensc-devel] Integrating p11-kit into pkcs11-helper?

2011-08-01 Thread Stef Walter
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