Hi,

This is my first post on this mailing list so please have patience with me 
:-)

I searched the mailing list for this topic but could not find anything 
(please direct me to it if I missed it). I would like to have PKCS#11 (P11, 
PKCS11) suport in node, or rather I would like to have the possibility to 
use keys in hardware through the node crypto API.

I have three reasons for wanting this:
1. More security and speed for TLS-server connections (today only soft- 
certificates/keys, correct?)
2. Hardware keys for TLS-client connection, to be able to do smart card 
logon.
3. I want to do create a CA software in node.js

I have looked into creating a module that would wrap a PKCS11 
implementation but with that I would only solve use case 3.
I have also looked at forge (https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge) TLS 
implementation but then I cannot use the native node libs (TLS-socket and 
HTTPS) in a good way (at least I could not see any way)

Has this topic been up? has it been disregarded for any special reasons?

If this is something that is desirable for the node.js project I would like 
to write some code for it (but the first tip on how to get involved was to 
"Discuss large changes on the mailing list before coding" so here I am).

Best Regards
//Samuel

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