Re: SSL Client certificates stored on hardware devices

So there is no way to use hardware devices for authentication with openSSL?

/Mads

----- Original Message ----
From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com>
To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Sent: Saturday, 18 November, 2006 7:32:42 PM
Subject: Re: SSL Client certificates stored on hardware devices

Mads B. Tandrup wrote:

> We have setup a system of smart cards used for authentication with
> various systems. We would like to use these smart cards with our
> Subversion Apache server. When accessing the repository from a
> standard Internet browser, we can authenticate using out smart cards.
>
> But is there a way for TortoiseSVN to authenticate with anything
> other than a pkcs12 file? I can't seem to make it use the MS Crypto
> API.

The 'MS Crypto API' already says it: it's proprietary to Microsoft. It's
not available on other OS. That's why Subversion doesn't support this.
Also, it would have to be supported/implemented by OpenSSL, not
Subversion itself. And even though this feature has been requested many
many times, OpenSSL (i.e. the devs of OpenSSL) have refused to implement
this for I guess their own reasons.

Stefan

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