Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC, Safari and Navy ERP
Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC, Safari and Navy ERP
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] CAC, Safari and Navy ERP
- From: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:26:41 -0600
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] CAC, Safari and Navy ERP
> From: Timothy J Miller <email@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:17:13 -0600
> To: John Dasher <email@hidden>
>
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:34 PM, John Dasher wrote:
>
>> Can you comment on when Apple is going to support the industry
>> standard PKCS#11 in its applications?
>
> Trust me: you're better off with OS X's security frameworks. :)
> PKCS#11 may be standard but it's a royal pain in the rear, especially
> when it's generally configured on a per-app basis. This may be great
> for platforms with a lot of diversity in the OS itself--like Linux--
> or applications with cross-platform needs--like Firefox--but for OS X-
> only applications it would be an impediment for the user.
>
The best way to go on the Mac would be for someone to write a porting guide.
The CSSM API are quite intimidating at first, but are very comprehensive.
As for the lack of tokend, that is a smartcard vendor problem as much as it
is an Apple problem. The good news is that smartcard vendors do compete, so
take a hard line and insist on Mac interoperability.
Paul
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