But you still have access to the "public parts" of the private key.

16 mar 2010 kl. 08.10 skrev "Andreas Jellinghaus" <a...@dungeon.inka.de>:

> Am Dienstag 16 März 2010 07:20:31 schrieb Rickard Bellgrim:
>> Hi
>>
>> A quick comment is that OpenDNSSEC will, probably in May, only need  
>> the
>> private part of the key. Since you can derive the public part from  
>> the
>> private object. This will save space in the HSM and make our code  
>> faster.
>
> hu? a smart card will never give you its private key. you can use it  
> for
> signing or decryption, but you can't download the private key. that
> is the whole point of the card/HSM. so not sure what opendnssec will  
> need
> in detail.
>
> Regards, Andreas
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