Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2008 05:33:19 schrieb Wan-Teh Chang:
>> I suggest that you consider the Coolkey CSP:
>> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/CoolKey#Windows_CSP
>>
>> The Coolkey CSP is fully implemented: it supports signing,
>> decryption, and Windows smartcard logon.
> 
> hmm. I always thought coolkey wasn't generic. but the CSP module
> looks like it uses PKCS#11 tokens - at least I see pkcs#11 header files
> there. the code mentions Identity Alliance all over the place - is this
> the ID Ally CSP now open sourced?
> 
> ID Ally CSP always worked fine for me. If it ever got open sourced,
> I didn't know.

Some of the files have: "Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Identity Alliance"
with a GPL2 license. It does not look like all of ID Ally,
I don't see the card Manager, but it might be enough.

> Also the Coolkey wiki page doesn't explain much of
> what coolkey exactly does. I always thought coolkey was the successor
> of the Netscape Smart Card software for the US Army and thus limited
> to cyberflex cards with it's own applet. if the CSP is generic, that would
> be great.

Looking at the source, it looks Generic and loads a PKCS#11 dll.

> 
> Still the MS base CSP für smart cards might have advantages, as the
> infrastructure MS provides with it sounds quite nice.

The source is small, and does use the Microsoft CAPI CSPDK.


> 
> Regards, Andreas
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