Boyce, Nick wrote:
>
> OK. I'm confused (;-). I thought I understood the
> load-the-certificate-at-Apache-startup issue, but then ...
>
> On 28th.April,1999 Paul Rubin wrote :-
>
> > If you need a lot of hits/sec (a smart card can't handle many) you can
> > use a hardware accelerator like the Ncipher (what I'm using) or
> > Rainbow accelerators
>
> and now I'm lost again. Surely the certificate only needs to be loaded (and
> therefore the passphrase needs to be entered) *once* after Apache startup ?
> Are you saying it has to be loaded every time the server gets a hit from a
> browser !!???!?!
If all you do is load the private key (note, the cert is public anyway,
so why protect it?) from the smartcard, why bother with a smartcard?
Cheers,
Ben.
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