Re: New port in MacPorts and question about TokenD

Martin Paljak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.opensc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28/09/16 11:34, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Then you can use it with *any* PKCS#11 module, including OpenSC's. Why
> have a hardware-specific Tokend implementation at all?


In theory - yes. In practice - there is a shitload of weirdly buggy
PKCS#11 modules out there and when you need to provide reliability, such
wishful layering often fails to deliver. And you need to configure them
and resolve conflicts and ...

The other sad part about tokend is - it will be phased out.

https://developer.apple.com/reference/cryptotokenkit

Anyway, it seems that such "long layering" is something that is actively
being worked against, with things like WebUSB being preferred by some
implementers instead of going through whatever would provide access to
hardware tokens (think: pkcs11-pcsc-ccid)

Regards,

Martin

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