I’ve been working on an importer for keys and certificates that can work with PKCS#11 key storage, such as smart cards, NSS or gnome-keyring.
Here’s a demo of it in action. If you want to try this out yourself, you’ll need:
- latest gcr library from gnome-keyring git master
- p11-kit 0.7 or later
- OpenSC configured to show up in p11-kit
- NSS configured to show up in p11-kit
- an OpenSC patch for mlock issue
- an Entersafe based smart card, like the Feitan 310 or 301.
- the smart card needs to be initialized
It’s possible that this works with other smart cards too, but I haven’t tested it. By the way, if you want to help work on smart cards support, Gooze gives away free smart cards for open source developers working on this stuff.
On to the demo…
View the Importer demo from Stef Walter on Vimeo.
The importer and all the widgets are available for use by other apps in the gcr library. So Seahorse has the same interface:
As you might note, I’ve been reworking the Seahorse user interface, more about that coming soon…