On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:20 PM, cb <[email protected]> wrote:

> How is that accomplished?  It seems you can only install keys from a
> PKCS12 into the systemwide KeyChain.


yes, that is correct. I'm just commenting that any pkcs#11 references you
might see are to support the KeyChain implementation.

-bri


>
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:16:51 PM UTC-4, Brian Carlstrom wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Nikolay Elenkov <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
>>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Kevin <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> A PKCS#11 module is just shared library, so if you have one compiled
>>> >> for Android, you could certainly use it from your native code. Or you
>>> >> can write a PKCS#11-backed JCE provider ala Java SE. I don't think
>>> there
>>> >> is any native support (helper libraries, etc.) for this in Android
>>> though.
>>> >>
>>>
>>> And then JB source code is released, and there is all this code that
>>> talks
>>> to a (proprietary) PKCS#11 module...
>>
>>
>> Yes, I believe you are referring to 4.1 implementation of the
>> android.security.KeyChain API which can return PrivateKeys backed by the
>> underlying keystore that can use PKCS#11 in it's implementation. There are
>> no plans for NDK interfaces to directly support PKCS#11.
>>
>> -bri
>>
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