The keys should never be read off the smart cards...this is a fundamental
rule of security. You can't trust any agent or software outside the cards.
So, the keys must be used by the card OS algorithms and the cards are used
as secure keys storage.
Enzo
On venerdi 9 aprile 1999 10.22, Erwann ABALEA [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
| Why don't you use the crypto capabilities of the cards to perform the
| crypto operations????
|
| For me, it's a very bad way to use smartcards than considering them only
| good for storage....
|
| Erwann.
|
|
| On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, David Corcoran wrote:
|
| > Hello,
| >
| > I have ssh2 working with PC/SC now. It generates keys and stores them
on
| > the cards and the agent reads them off the card also. I have tried 3
| > cards as of now: The Multiflex, Cryptoflex, and Cyberflex Access 16k
and
| > all seem to work successfully. I'll try to release it, the new C -
API,
| > and the new version of PC/SC this weekend along with the Multiflex
ICCSP
| > and a few new utilities.
| >
| > Thanks
| > Dave
| >
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