On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 10:23 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:

> > Indeed, in the case where one has both ykcs11 and opensc, he would
> > have
> > to supply --detailed-urls to p11tool to be able to distinguish
> > between
> > objects. That is, because they will have identical URLs except for
> > the
> > library-description and library-manufacturer fields, which are not
> > normally printed.
> > 
> > That would be a bit more than just inconvenience because of the
> > duplicate listings, it would be that if you don't specify the
> > library
> > fields on the URL, you wouldn't know which module was used for the
> > operation.
> 
> They don't, in fact, have different URIs. If I add a .module file for
> ykcs11.so, I get the attached output for p11tool --list-tokens.

You forgot to attach it :)

> > We should ping yubico on that. Is there some reason they didn't
> > implement the key generation on opensc? Ideally we won't ship that
> > additional module.
> 
> I don't know. But I suspect it would require hardware change. There
> are a lot of existing YubiKeys out there. 

opensc-pkcs11 is an alternative driver for the same hardware, the same
as ykcs11. As it is now, it seems that opensc misses only the
generation part, and I think it would be preferable to pointing yubico
in adding that functionality in opensc, rather than shipping a separate
driver in fedora.

regards,
Nikos
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