Re: [Opensc-devel] [WIP PATCH] Add support for standard PKCS#11 URIs to ENGINE_PKCS11

[Nikos M. <n.m...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Douglas E Engert <dee...@gm...> wrote:
>>> The issue with OpenSSL and engines that use keys other then RSA is still a show stopper
>>> for future engine development. I was looking for someone outside OpenSC to push
>>> OpenSSL to put some effort into the issue:
>>>
>>> http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2568
>>
>> I still think that the easier option is to get the PKCS#11 engine merged
>> *into* OpenSSL, and then we don't have to care about visibility of
>> private headers. OpenSSL is the last major crypto library that doesn't
>> have PKCS#11 support.
> Easier?
> Have you every dealt with the OpenSSL developers?

There was a recent message in the openssl mailing list because of an
old ticket, and based on the last comment it seems they will be quite
receptive on pkcs11 support:
http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11&user=guest&pass=guest

regards,
Nikos