Cryptographic Token Interface Standard

PKCS#11


Mechanisms

The following table shows, for the mechanisms defined in this document, their support by different cryptographic operations. For any particular token, of course, a particular operation may well support only a subset of the mechanisms listed. There is also no guarantee that a token that supports one mechanism for some operation supports any other mechanism for any other operation (or even supports that same mechanism for any other operation).

Table 91: Mechanisms vs. applicable functions
 
Functions
           
Mechanism
Encrypt
&
Decrypt
Sign
&
Verify
SR
&
VR1
Digest
Gen.
Key/
Key
Pair
Wrap
&
Unwrap
Derive
CKM_KIP_DERIVE            
X
CKM_KIP_WRAP          
X
 
CKM_KIP_MAC  
X
         

The remainder of this section will present in detail the mechanisms and the parameters that are supplied to them.

Mechanisms:

CKM_KIP_DERIVE 
CKM_KIP_WRAP
CKM_KIP_MAC


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