Hello, As I told you I am still learning about thoses Smartcards but it seems that the SmartCards has some functions you can call, I tested one called "random number generator", but it also can make authentication key calculation and I suppose this is why the private key cannot not be extracted but only "used by the card" when you call some of its functions to compute some encryption or crypto key validation.
I know the card I use has a signature and a authentication X.509 certificate that I can access, but it do not have a encryption certificate so I cannot use it to do strong Virtual Disk Image encryption, for this i'll need to request the encryption certificate to the authority of the SmartCard constructor. I am also looking into some other PKCS11 code and sample to try to see how I could integrate to ICS if my knowledge and skills permit it. regards. AG> Arno Garrels wrote: >>> I know that private key cannot be extracted from the SmartCard type >>> I use >> >> That's hard to believe, if OpenSSL can read the key, and it must read >> it, then it should be possible to write it to a PEM file as well, >> IMHO. AG> Maybe the smartcart is smarter than I can imagige ;-) I must admit that AG> I haven't used one in my live. AG> -- AG> Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
