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2008 Jul 31
5
[Bug 1498] New: OpenSC smartcard access should use raw public keys, not X.509 certificates
...ady has (embedded in the cert) a public key. But you can load a raw key onto a card without having a certificate. So raw keys would seem to be the lowest common denominator. Is there some other reason to require an X.509 certificate that i'm missing? The attached patch allows OpenSSH to use certificateless RSA keys on any OpenSC-supported hardware crypto token. Fixing this bug also simplifies the sc_read_pubkey() implementation, reduces the number of #includes in scard-opensc.c, and removes a compilation warning, for whatever that's worth. The patch was developed and tested against openssh 4.7p...