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>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:51:07 +0200
>From: Tommaso Cucinotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: Scuola Superiore S. Anna
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>Stephen Pellicer wrote:
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>> 3. Is the SSP interface at all interesting? I'm using the 0.1.2a
>> release of the smartsign project page. Is this a popular interface on
>> other platforms? Is this package in use out there? I guess this is a
>> modified version from David's original release by Tommaso Cucinotta.
>
>The interesting thing about the SSP-Lite's interface is in that it
>implements the PCSC-standards, level 6. So if you have, tomorrow,
>another smartcard, you can simply replace the implementation and
>your code still works. This IS NOT the case if you use the basic
>SCardTransmit() function call, and hard-code specific card's APDU
>into your application.
>
>In example, I've planned to develop a Cryptoflex driver for SSP-Lite
>As Soon As Possible.
>
>The counterpart is that SSP-Lite was developed under Linux (RedHat6.2)
>and is not yet tested very well. Especially I need some feedback about
>build problems under other platforms. However, I'm releasing a new
>version of ALL the SmartSign package using SSP-Lite, ALL
>AUTOCONF-igured.
>
>So, I suggest you to use the SSP-Lite package. For every problem,
>you can either directly contact me or e-mail this mailing list or
>the smartsign mailing list:
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>About the padding problem, you should note that the decryption performed
>by the card is a simple-not-(un)padded one. if you need to use padded
>RSA encryption, you have to unpad the data after the decryption, as you
>did using the RSA_padding_check() function.
>(The data flow is: Pad->Encrypt->Decrypt->Unpad)
>This is also the only thing that differentiates between
>PublicEncrypt and PublicDecrypt algorythms.
>
>If you take a look at the openssl's sources, dir "crypto/rsa",
>files "rsa_pk1.c" and "rsa_eay.c", you can see EXACTLY what
>is difference between the various kinds of padding a message.
>
>About the DBFindCard() things, you should ask David Corcoran.
>
>Hope this helps. Bye,
>
> Tommaso.
>
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