HPC OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework

This presentation provides an overview of the OpenSolaris Cryptographic Framework. After a short introduction of the overall design, it explores the available APIs in kernel and userland. This includes standard interfaces (PKCS#11 - Public-Key Crypto Standard #11 from RSA Labs) but also additional interfaces to simplify the access to the cryptograhic services. In addition to the consumer APIs we'll also cover the administration of the cryptographic framework. This includes displaying, enabling/disabling or adding/removing certain cryptographic providers or mechanisms. [...read more...]

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