-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Scheibelhofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:49 PM
To: Mohammed SADIQ
Subject: RE: [OCF] RSA/DSA key & secret codes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohammed SADIQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:30 PM
> To: Bartek Paszkowski; OCF
> Subject: RE: [OCF] RSA/DSA key & secret codes
>
>
> What do you mean by protect? Are you referring to the usage of
> private key(for signing) or the access of key information(read/update).
>
> For usage, you have to code the system record of the file
> appropriately. You can protect by a maximum of 2 codes. For
> access of key information, the public portion is interpreted in
> the same way as any other file(AC1, AC2, AC3). You will anyway
> have no access to the private information.
that is right. the GPK card can protect the use of a private key with a
secret code. but the card services for the GPK card do not implement this
feature. if you have a look in the constructor of the GPKRSAKeyFile, you can
read the nice comment
// We don't manage PKFiles PIN protections
the author of the code confirmed that.
regards
Karl Scheibelhofer
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at Technical University of Graz, Austria, http://www.iaik.at
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