CKA_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO

From
Stef Walter
Date
2013-04-11T17:25:00+00:00
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CKA_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO
On 11.04.2013 18:15, Michael StJohns wrote:
> On 4/11/2013 1:23 AM, Stef Walter wrote: >> On 10.04.2013 01:35, Michael StJohns wrote: >>> Attached is an edit of the appropriate sections of PKCS11 v2.30 to add >>> support for CKA_PUBLIC_KEY_INFO. >>> >>> Additions are highlighted. Assuming this is acceptable, I'll provide >>> the appropriate edits for the public key sections to describe the >>> encoding of the public key info field in SubjectPublicKeyInfo >> Can we have this attribute on X.509 certificates as well? That would be >> a good way of detecting whether a certificate and key match >> cryptographically. >
> I would tend to gravitate towards no as the certificate already contains
> exactly that information. On the other hand if you want to use it in
> the template for FindObject it may make sense. Yes, that's exactly the use case. Stef