Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:22:48 +0200, Francesco 
> Gennai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> francesco.gennai+openssl> thank you for the pointers.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> francesco.gennai+openssl> Now we need to move the private key to a
> francesco.gennai+openssl> signing device.
> 
> Uhmm, you do know that most devices will not import a private key, and
> will instead have a couple of predefined ones or will allow you to
> create news ones, right?

Oh, yes. 
I'm sorry, because my sentence "...to move the private key..." wasn't
exact.
We can start with any new private key.

> 
> francesco.gennai+openssl> We could use also an expensive solution,
> francesco.gennai+openssl> like an HSM, but we would know about
> francesco.gennai+openssl> existing experiences, and about products:
> francesco.gennai+openssl> SmartCard models and producers and/or HSM
> francesco.gennai+openssl> models and producers that have been already
> francesco.gennai+openssl> used in OpenSSL/OpenVMS environment or that,
> francesco.gennai+openssl> accordingly to your experiences, could be
> francesco.gennai+openssl> tested.
> 
> I would have a chat with the OpenSC (http://www.opensc-project.org/)
> guys, as they've already written an engine module that interfaces
> pkcs11 libraries.  There are a few other implementations floating
> in our contrib area as well.

Thank you again for the pointers.

Regards,
Francesco

> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
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