On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:10, [email protected] said: > PKCS#11 but also open source drivers (also free, in the sense of "free > software" vs "open source software") is as good excuse to reject PKCS#11
In 99% percent of all cases Open Source and Free Software describe software distributed under the same terms. Thus it is not helpful to distinguish between them. > And common sense tells that using PKCS#11 is a better option than not > using it at all or inventing a 15th standard [1]. Well, GnuPG had support for several cards before there was any _working_ pkcs#11 driver for any available card on non-Windows platforms. Recall that not too long ago pkcs#11 was an interface consisting of some basic core functions with a lot of required proprietary extensions and many of them even shared the same function pointer slot. Meanwhile major players don't use it anymore for interop purposes but defined their own high level standard - similar to what GnuPG did. Anyway, we had this discussion on the gnupg lists often enough that it does not make sense to repeat our views here again. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
