On Mar 16, 2010, at 15:31 , Tomas Gustavsson wrote:
> 
> If using PKCS#11 I would personally not go down a path that is not 
> commonly used. The common usage of smart cards and hardware security 
> modules always stores both the private (as a sensitive object) and the 
> public key (either as a public key or as an x.509 certificate).
> This works and is well tested and is sure to work across a wide range of 
> smart cards and hardware security modules.
> 
> Why is this not suitable for OpenDNSSEC.


IMO as well, either a key or a certificate is the atomic object dealt with by 
most software. I would not suggest breaking this without a specific requirement 
(I don't think that saving space in HSM would be one - a greater HSM would fix 
the problem ;))


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