Hey everybody,

this topic is even more obscure than Windows.

Currently, BIND 9 has two PKCS#11 interfaces:

* native PKCS#11 that uses direct PKCS#11 API calls to library that dynamically 
loaded (from compiled-in path)
* OpenSSL engine PKCS#11 from OpenSC project[1]

ISC has sponsored significant improvements to the OpenSC engine_pkcs11 and the 
next OpenSC version will include those improvements. The new version has better 
performance and is maintained by people who actually understand the PKCS#11 
interface. Those improvements will be part of libp11 0.4.12 release.

Therefore we intent to drop the native PKCS#11 interface from BIND 9.18, so 
there’s less arcane code in named and we can focus on the DNS.

1. https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/wikis/BIND-9-PKCS11

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
ond...@isc.org

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