[gnutls-dev] RFC: PKCS#11 plans

[Nate Nielsen]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Ok.  gnutls-daemon could then support, say:
> 
> * Any PKCS#11 token via libp11
> 
> * Simple PKCS#11 tokens directly (it takes < 50 lines of code to sign
>   something with scute, and I have this code working now).
> 
> * GNOME Seahorse crypto provider (although possibly this will happen
>   via PKCS#11).
> 
> * gpg-agent for OpenPGP keys + OpenPGP signing.
> 
> * Microsoft CAPI

BTW, I'm working on building a complete PKCS#11 provider for CAPI. So by
supporting PKCS#11 you'd be able to have things like CAPI support.

Cheers,
Nate