I've personally always wondered why the PKCS #11 folks never considered a central registry like in Windows where cryptographic providers register themselves, particularly for user-oriented providers (not HSMs).
I believe Microsoft introduced this 15 years ago... Note: I don't mean that a "kitchen sink" style Windows Registry is generally a good idea but for specific things like providers it is quite useful. Doesn't CUPS rely on something "registryish", otherwise I don't see how you can administer printers like you can in Ubuntu? Says a Linux n00b... The problem is "teaching" application to search for providers in new ways. Crypto isn't exactly what people are craving for so it tends to be downplayed priority-wise. BTW, isn't there an effort establishing NSS as the Linux crypto platform? Anders On 2010-07-18 00:16, Stef Walter wrote: > Is there a spec around for specifying to applications which PKCS#11 > modules to load and how to initialize them? > > I'm thinking something along the lines of PAM conf files, where you can > specify which PAM modules different applications load. > > We're working hard on PKCS#11 support in GNOME, and rather than coming > up with something like this on our own, perhaps someone has already > given this some thought? > > Cheers, > > Stef > _______________________________________________ > opensc-devel mailing list > opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org > http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
