[opensc-devel] proving a key is on a smart card

2012-01-18 Thread Frank Cusack
In a CSR, how is it proven that the key resides on a smart card (and is not exportable)? In my understanding, the CSR is signed by the private key of the (to be) cert itself. Thus that signature only proves that the requester actually possesses the private half, not that the private key resides o

Re: [opensc-devel] proving a key is on a smart card

2012-01-18 Thread Christian Hohnstaedt
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:20:05PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: > In a CSR, how is it proven that the key resides on a smart card (and is not > exportable)? In my understanding, the CSR is signed by the private key of > the (to be) cert itself. Thus that signature only proves that the > requester a

Re: [opensc-devel] proving a key is on a smart card

2012-01-18 Thread Frank Cusack
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Christian Hohnstaedt < christ...@hohnstaedt.de> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:20:05PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: > > In a CSR, how is it proven that the key resides on a smart card (and is > not > > exportable)? In my understanding, the CSR is signed by the