[Cryptech Tech] token api

Russ Housley housley at vigilsec.com
Wed Mar 12 21:04:11 UTC 2014


Jakob:

> On 11 mar 2014, at 22:28, Russ Housley <housley at vigilsec.com> wrote:
> 
>> When I worked on crypto tokens, this was the approach we used.  We had an API that was pretty close to the actual hardware command structure, and then we build PKCS #11 and Microsoft CAPI on top of that.
> 
> Do you know of any public documentation on such command structures? Experience from previous work would be most useful.

I was not talking about the FORTEZZA Card when I made my comment, but it also used this approach.  The documentation for the token that did commercial algorithms remains proprietary.  However, much of the FORTEZZA stuff has been made available here:

http://cryptome.org/jya/fortezza.htm

Russ




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