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Bug 1242469 - pkcs11-helper doesn't support pkcs #11 URLs
Summary: pkcs11-helper doesn't support pkcs #11 URLs
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1173554
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pkcs11-helper
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kalev Lember
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: PKCS11
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-13 12:03 UTC by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Modified: 2015-07-13 13:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-07-13 13:42:30 UTC
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Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2015-07-13 12:03:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
pkcs11-helper uses a custom format to specify objects in a token. However, in Fedora we use the standardized (RFC7512) PKCS #11 URLs to specify objects in tokens across applications [0], It seems that pkcs11-helper is one of the last PKCS #11 helper libraries which doesn't support these URLs, creating islands of applications which don't understand them.

There is already a patch to upstream:
https://github.com/OpenSC/pkcs11-helper/issues/5

[0]. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SSLCertificateHandling
Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2015-07-13 13:42:30 UTC 
Actually I think I already fixed this as bug 1173554.

I'm not sure we've got to the point where OpenVPN actually *works* yet though.
OpenSC still craps itself on fork, p11-kit-proxy still deadlocks, and pkcs11-helper still violates POSIX by doing forbidden things from an atfork handler.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1173554 ***
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