openssh unix dev - Nov 2001 - Support for PKCS cryptocards..

Hello all,

You may find this interesting:

http://jemmari.tky.hut.fi/sc/

Here in Finland, we have cryptocards which have a PKCS#15 interface. They
already have RSA keys stored in them, and can be used in various
applications. I'm sure they're getting more common elsewhere too.

Juha Yrj?l? et al have added support for these as a patch, and are 
providing libraries (under LGPL though) to use the card.

I'm not sure if it's good to separate PKCS and ISO7816 cards, but
that's
what they chose.

It'd be interesting to have support for PKCS cards too in OpenSSH.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 10:12:18AM +0200, Pekka Savola
wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> You may find this interesting:
> 
> http://jemmari.tky.hut.fi/sc/
> 
> Here in Finland, we have cryptocards which have a PKCS#15 interface. They
> already have RSA keys stored in them, and can be used in various
> applications. I'm sure they're getting more common elsewhere too.
but you don't wan't to reuse keys?