Is it possible to have a stripped-down and slimmed version of pkcs11-tool (or a similar, may be new) program which does just one thing: read the contents of a data object (given by either application-id or application-label) on a smartcard (enter PIN if the data object was previously stored with --auth-id option) and display it on the console? I do not need this new program (modified pkcs11-tool or otherwise) to do anything else, i.e. sign data, store keys, do hashing etc - just to read a specified data object, display that data on the console and finish.
The reason I am asking for this is simple: I am currently designing a module to be included in the initrd/initramfs which needs to read a data object token from a smartcard and use this data to unlock/open root (/) encrypted partition. if I use the current pkcs11-tool/pkcs15-tool I need to have at least 5 other packages installed and satisfy another dozen or so other dependencies (and have openct and possibly pcscd daemons running!), which, to me, is a big overkill. Besides, initrd/initramfs run a very limited kernel system and I am not sure I would be able to satisfy all the dependencies in order to make it work, hence why I need a 'lite' version of a tool which is designed to do just the reading and displaying of the specified data object and that's it. Is this possible? _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
