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Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows PKCS#11-Problem


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Windows PKCS#11-Problem
  • From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:18:35 +0300

On 12/6/06, Robert Fischer <triton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, you're right. AFAIK without a security-officer pin it's not possible to
> modify or delete the private key. So for me, the token is basically a safe
> place to store the private key (please correct me, if i'm wrong). If the user
> messes up the certificates and/or public-keys, its basically his fault. The
> only thing that i would like to avoid is the private-key gets modified or
> deleted.

Wrong.
You afraid of private key USAGE.

> > For the mean time I can suggest to use CryptoAPI interface for
> > Windows, this is why Tony also uses none PKCS#11 configuration.
>
> At the moment i'm not sure how it's possible to manage the keys and
> certificates using CryptoAPI and how the interaction between the token and
> the Microsoft certificate store works. I'll take a look at it, maybe after
> trying the opensc pkcs#11 provider on Windows again ;)

If you generate certificate using Aladdin CSP you can acces it via CSP
And PKCS#11.
I think that the CSP of OpenSC is not working very well these days...
But I am not so sure.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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