Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC PKCS#11 and Session Objects

2010-11-10 Thread Andre Zepezauer
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 13:03 -0600, Douglas E. Engert wrote: > > On 11/10/2010 11:37 AM, Andre Zepezauer wrote: > > Hello Douglas, > > > > you should check if NSS does support ECDSA. If it does, then it should > > verify the users certificate on its own. Calling a PKCS#11 provider for > > doing it,

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC PKCS#11 and Session Objects

2010-11-10 Thread Robert Relyea
On 11/10/2010 09:37 AM, Andre Zepezauer wrote: > Hello Douglas, > > you should check if NSS does support ECDSA. If it does, then it should > verify the users certificate on its own. Calling a PKCS#11 provider for > doing it, is some kind of abuse. (See quotation below) I varies with builds. Most Li

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC PKCS#11 and Session Objects

2010-11-10 Thread Douglas E. Engert
On 11/10/2010 11:37 AM, Andre Zepezauer wrote: > Hello Douglas, > > you should check if NSS does support ECDSA. If it does, then it should > verify the users certificate on its own. Calling a PKCS#11 provider for > doing it, is some kind of abuse. (See quotation below) I agree, but that is not w

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC PKCS#11 and Session Objects

2010-11-10 Thread Andre Zepezauer
Hello Douglas, you should check if NSS does support ECDSA. If it does, then it should verify the users certificate on its own. Calling a PKCS#11 provider for doing it, is some kind of abuse. (See quotation below) But if NSS tries to offload the verification to OpenSC, because it doesn't has suppo

[opensc-devel] OpenSC PKCS#11 and Session Objects

2010-11-10 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Does OpenSC PKCS#11 support the creation of session objects? Has anyone looked at doing this? I bring this up as I am testing EC mods to OpenSC using Thunderbird to sign e-mail as a test. In my case, the user certificate is using ECDSA with a named curve, and the test CA is also using ECDSA to si