[Smartsign-devel] Re: [Smartsign-users] Re: question on winscard.dll import library

[Tommaso C. <ke...@ti...>]

Raghuram Sripada wrote:
> 
> Tommaso,
> 
> I am still trying to run SmartSign with Gemplus cards (No card_edge-token
> yet) with Netscape under Win2K.

What model of card ? So you embedded that card's commands, right ? Is
this
the SmartSign-Raghuda you submitted to me so far ? Do you want it to be
published on the "contrib" section of the web site ?

Did you ever consider implementing MuscleCard API for that card ?

> I am facing problems (Memory reference errors emanating from GPKCS#11). It

Are they from the token library or from the gpkcs#11 core itself ?
Please, note that gpkcs11 core assumes all of the structures to be
statically allocated, and this is one of the main troubles with that
framework. I've added some check & workaround in the modified-gpkcs11
package, but it's very far to be comprehensive of all of the problems
that could arise when structures are allocated/dealloated dynamically.
This happens basically on card's removal, otherwise all should work
fine.

> Are you using GPKCS#11 to generate Key Pair under Card-Edge Token or are you
> using Card based crypto engine to generate key pair?

CardEdge-Token uses the GenerateKeyPair command of the Card Edge
protocol
to generate a key pair on the card itself (onboard generation), then it
exports the public one with the ExportKey command.

The older SCToken generates a keypair on the host with OpenSSL's
RSAGenerateKeyPair() function then loads it into the card by overwriting
the key file on the card.

> Is this new token
> working under Win2k/NT?

CardEdge-Token has been tested with Win2K/CygWin, used with Netscape
Communicator 6.1.

> Are you able to use SmartSign (not CardEdge) with netscape under Win2K?

If not the SmartPKCS11, what else would you like to use with Netscape
from
the SmartSign project ?

Hope this helps.

Bye,
	T.

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