[Bug 116201] Add support of PKCS#11 (Smartcards) into KDE

kaido kert <[email protected]> 27 Feb 2008 17:46:59 -0000
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------- Additional Comments From kaidokert gmail com  2008-02-27 18:46 -------
>>b. Moving to Trolltech's QtSSLSocket implementation. This implementation does not allow many features required by a web browser:
>>But mainly, it will *NOT* allow smartcard integration as its private key is forced to be exportable.

I am working on a patch like that for KDE trunk as well, which incorporates support for OpenSSL engines as means of authentication, so smartcards and any other authentication mechanism that has an OpenSSL engine exporting necessary RSA ops can be supported.