Cryptographic Token Interface Standard

PKCS#11


Token profiles


Sections

Government authentication-only
Cellular Digital Packet Data
Other profiles

Detailed Description

This appendix describes "profiles," i.e., sets of mechanisms, which a token should support for various common types of application. It is expected that these sets would be standardized as parts of the various applications, for instance within a list of requirements on the module that provides cryptographic services to the application (which may be a Cryptoki token in some cases). Thus, these profiles are intended for reference only at this point, and are not part of this standard.

The following table summarizes the mechanisms relevant to two common types of applications:

Table B-1, Mechanisms and profiles
 
Application
 
Mechanism
Government Authentication-only
Cellular Digital Packet Data
CKM_DSA_KEY_PAIR_GEN
X
 
CKM_DSA
X
 
CKM_DH_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN  
X
CKM_DH_PKCS_DERIVE  
X
CKM_RC4_KEY_GEN  
X
CKM_RC4  
X
CKM_SHA_1
X
 


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