Hi Mary,

> In your last mail, u told that current release of OpenXPKI contains  
> the necessary code to be integrated with HSM. So Kindly provide me  
> the COMPLETE method of integration of HSM's with OpenXPKI ?

in order to integrate a new HSM in the OpenXPKI crypto backend you  
need to write a new "Engine" driver in trunk/perl-modules/core/trunk/ 
OpenXPKI/Crypto/Backend/OpenSSL/Engine/ The driver needs to implement  
a few commands which set up the engine for OpenSSL properly and  
provides Engine availability and key online checks.

The nCipher HSMs use a wrapper command called "preload" that prefixes  
all OpenSSL commands accessing the HSM. In addition nCipher provides a  
dynamic OpenSSL engine which a program must use to access the HSM.

Other HSMs may do this differently (e. g. without a wrapper).

Cheers,

Martin



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