ssh-agent add PKCS#11 support

[Alon Bar-Lev]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 02:14, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>PKCS#11 is a standard API interface that can be used in 
>>order to access cryptographic tokens. You can find the 
>>specification at 
>>http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2133, most 
>>smartcard and other cryptographic device vendors support 
>>PKCS#11, opensc also provides PKCS#11 interface.
> 
> 
> Did you get any response on this ?
> 
> We would be very interested in this for Solaris.  We use a derivative of
> OpenSSH in OpenSolaris.  The ssh-agent hasn't changed much, if any.
> We also have very extensive PKCS#11 support including a "software
> smartcard".
> 
> If you are interested in doing this via OpenSolaris; assuming OpenSSH
> isn't interested or you just want to try it with more PKCS#11 libraries
> see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/ or contact us via
> security-discuss at opensolaris.org.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Hello,

No I didn't. I am still waiting for a response...

I don't think that writing this kind of code is worth the 
effort, unless it is going to be merged...

Maybe I'll just write it and see what happens...

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.