NAME¶
openCryptoki - A PKCS#11 implementation.
DESCRIPTION¶
openCryptoki is an implementation of the PKCS#11 API standard. It
provides an interface to the functions of underlying cryptographic tokens,
which may be implemented via software or hardware. The PKCS#11 specification
has been released by RSA Labs. More information on PKCS#11 can be found on the
RSA labs website:
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs.
To use openCryptoki, first run
pkcs11_startup to initialize the contents
of the pk_config_data file. Then run the
pkcsslotd daemon. At this
point, openCryptoki is ready to start receiving PKCS#11 requests from user
applications. If openCryptoki is included by your distro, its likely that
pkcs11_startup is run automatically by an init script.
Use the
pkcsconf utility to further configure openCryptoki once the
daemon is running.
SEE ALSO¶
- pkcsslotd(8),
- pkcsconf(1),
- pk_config_data(5),
- pkcs11_startup(1).