Why still no PKCS#11 ECC key support in OpenSSH ?

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 21:20 +0100, Thomas Calderon wrote:
> Hello Damien,
> 
> You don't necessarily need hardware to progress on most of the
> integration, you could use a software token to start with, softhsmv2
> supports ECC and is a good PKCS#11 implementation.

To be honest, if you want a reliable set of unit tests then software is
always the way to go.  For instance if you look at this TPM engine
project:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/openssl_tpm2_engine.git/

All the tests are based on a software TPM emulator because you just
wouldn't be able to guarantee the state of the hardware even if you
even had access to it on the build system.

James