Protecting keys using a TPM

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sat Mar 16 04:38:24 PDT 2013


On 03/15/2013 11:39 PM, Martin Paljak wrote:

> Hello,
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:
>> And while on the opensc wishlist mode, Martin please consider the patch
>> [0] to remove smart card initialization in C_Initialize(). That patch
>> saves several seconds (5-6 in my case) of loading time in p11-kit if
>> smart cards/tokens aren't used and one is present.
> 
> Can you test if this satisfactory:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/3b4f7b9ff7892245490a2ffe0876b26d1986674d
> 
> As the comment (and diffstat) tells, it looks more like a long-overdue
> oversight..


I've just tried it and it looks fine to me. (However, I've needed some
changes to take advantage of it, e.g., postpone GetSlotList).

regards,
Nikos



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