by Klaus Heinrich Kiwi, LTC Security team
The openCryptoki project, a PKCS#11 provider for Linux with support for software and hardware tokens, has released new versions for both the openCryptoki code itself as well as for it’s associated library, libica.
- Libica-2 is a major cleanup from the previous versions. It has a new API and supports software fall-back (OpenSSL) when no Crypto hardware is present. The current version (2.0.2) has bug fixes and improved code examples.
- OpenCryptoki 2.3.0 includes support for Libica-2 and has a number of bug fixes and minor improvements
OpenCryptoki is the most common way that PKCS#11-enabled applications (including Java JCE aplications) can exploit cryptographic hardware in a Linux environment.
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Platform Module (TPM) specification v1.2 is now officially ISO/IEC standard 11889. The TCG has published a press release commemorating the event and the TCG president Scott Rotondo has written a blog entry on the importance of this accomplishment.
Congratulations and thanks to the TCG members who made this possible!
