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PKCS#11 and GnuPG

PKCS#11 and GnuPG

Posted Aug 11, 2011 16:35 UTC (Thu) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459)
In reply to: PKCS#11 and GnuPG by shpedoikal
Parent article: Desktop Summit: Crypto consolidation

Indeed some very basic operations are now working more or less flawless. But again, very basic standard operations only. If you want to do something more complicated which might even be asking for a special PIN or presenting more information it turns out to be a problem. Vendors then stretch the interpretation of PKCS#11 or fall back to the proprietary pkcs#11 extensions those who have been the cause for all the problems in the past.


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