OPENCRYPTOKI(7)

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version 3.27.0 · 6 versions
, in centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, fedora 44, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to OPENCRYPTOKI(7) — the manual page for openCryptoki, which is literally a PKCS#11 implementation. 💅✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so openCryptoki is an implementation of the PKCS#11 API standard. it provides an interface to the functions of underlying cryptographic tokens, and those tokens 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, run the pkcsslotd daemon. the daemon will read the opencryptoki.conf file to collect information about the tokens and their slots.

use the pkcsconf utility to further configure openCryptoki once the daemon is running.

🛡️ SECURITY NOTE 🛡️

okay serious face for a sec, bestie. All non-root users that require access to PKCS#11 tokens using openCryptoki must be assigned to the pkcs11 group to be able to communicate with the pkcsslotd daemon. Only fully trusted users should be granted membership in the group. Group members can block other openCryptoki users from accessing PKCS#11 tokens. so like… be careful who you let in, fr fr. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the page!! this one is from openCryptoki 3.27.0, dated May 2007, and it's OPENCRYPTOKI(7). byeee, go slay some crypto 💖

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