Richard:
I thought that the engine used PKCS#11 to interface to HSMs. In this case it should be able to work with any PKCS#11 compatible device. Your comment implies though that the engine interface is vendor specific. Can you clarify? TIA, Eric Gilbertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 01:37 PM 3/14/2002 +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: >ferruh.zamangoer> <openssl-engine-0.9.6c.tar.gz> [LATEST] >ferruh.zamangoer> <openssl-0.9.6c.tar.gz> >ferruh.zamangoer> >ferruh.zamangoer> but are there stable and what is difference between >openssl-engine and >ferruh.zamangoer> openssl . Can anybody help me ??? > >The 'engine' variant has an extra component (called an ENGINE :-)), >which permits communication with certain external crypto devices >(basically those we've been able to create an interface to). Those we >support are all hardware devices, like the nCipher box or certain >CryptoSwift cards. Only public key cryptography and random number >generation are supported, as well as HSM keys for nCipher boxes that >support it. > >In the upcoming version 0.9.7, the support has been extended to >include symmetric ciphers and digests, as well as having engines in >separate shared libraries (so others can develop their own engines >without having it part of the OpenSSL source). > >-- >Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Redakteur@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 > \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 >Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ > >Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. >See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. >______________________________________________________________________ >OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org >User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
