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Heads-Up: Solaris Key Management Framework

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:37:44 -0500
From: Wyllys Ingersoll <wyllys.ingersoll at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot sfbay dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads-Up: Solaris Key Management Framework


Heads-Up:
        The putback of the Solaris Key Management Framework (PSARC 2005/074)
introduces a unified set of administrative and development APIs for managing
public key objects in Solaris.  Administratively, there are 2 applications
that can be used:
    pktool(1) - man page: http://borg.sfbay/export/projects/KMF/pktool.1
    kmfcfg(1) - man page: http://borg.sfbay/export/projects/KMF/kmfcfg.1

There is also a new library (Consolidation Private for now) available for ON
developers to use - /usr/lib/libkmf.so.1  which introduces a set of
programming APIs for creating and managing certifcates, keys, and other
PKI objects such as Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs).  The design
document for the project (which includes details about the programming
APIs) is available here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/projects/kmf/files/kmf_whitepaper.pdf
                - or here -
http://borg.sfbay/export/projects/KMF/KMF_Whitepaper.pdf

Questions can be directed to kmf-core at sun dot com (internal) or
kmf-discuss at opensolaris dot org (external).
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-Wyllys Ingersoll
 Key Management Framework Team