Help need to use truecryt + openpgp applet.

Matthias-Christian Ott ott at mirix.org
Thu Feb 19 21:20:05 CET 2015


On 2015-02-19 20:00, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:22, ott at mirix.org said:
> 
>> Your Java Card does probably not support PKCS #11. An applet on the card
>> might implement it. To make it work, you need a PKCS #11 middleware and
> 
> PKCS#11 is an API between two applications.  It is not directly related
> to smartcards.  However, it is very common that the smart card driver
> software (on the host) provides an PKCS#11 interface towards
> applications.  (Scute can be considered a smartcard card driver
> software.)
> 
> PKCS#15 is a standard which some cards implement and what OpenPSC is
> mostly about.  PKCS#15 is for cards what FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy
> Standard) is for Linux.

I'm well aware of this. That why I wrote "middlware" instead of
"driver". SoftHSM is a good example of a PKCS #11 middleware that is not
a smartcard.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian




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