Title: Smart cards and private keys
Hi,
Is it possible to extract private key from some (any) smart card? I'm using ActivCard equipement and it seems that it is not possible?
Thank you in advance,
Milan
Milan Tomic wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to extract private key from some (any) smart
card? I'm using ActivCard equipement and it seems that it is not possible?
Thank you in advance,
Milan
Hi !
I don't know if it concerns really OpenSSL.
I know that few smart cards can generate key pairs but
Milan Tomic wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to extract private key from some (any) smart
card? I'm using ActivCard equipement and it seems that it is not
possible?
in general it's not possible to extract the private key
Cheers,
Nils
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Title: Smart cards and private keys
OpenSSL does not manage that directly, but
it is possible: you will have to create a set of
functions using your own software, let's say using Windows CryptoAPI to
access smartcard , and then suply that callbacks to the RSA_METHOD
stru
There are very good reasons NOT to allow extraction of a private
key from a crypto device. Investigate the vendor's provisions for
either backing up or cloning a device. It is possible that the
device will export its private key under some kind of protection
(like encryption with some "master key
