Undocumented: ssl-pkcs11-provider - What is a «Security Provider»?

Hi

I got a proprietary PKCS#11 library (for Post SuisseID smartcard) in
/usr/lib/libcvP11.so.

There is a configuration option «ssl-pkcs11-provider» in ~/.subversion/servers.

But it is absolutely undocumented what this option is, even google doesn't find
anything useful. The only documentation is: «Name of PKCS#11 provider to use».

How is the «Name of PKCS#11 provider» defined? It is *not* the name of the
PKCS#11 library, so what is it?

Everytthing I tried results in «unable to load PKCS#11 provider», e.g.:

user_at_host:~/svn/project$ LANG= svn up
svn: Invalid config: unable to load PKCS#11 provider '/usr/lib/libcvP11.so'
user_at_host:~/svn/project$ ls -l /usr/lib/libcvP11.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5279688 Jul 6 14:30 /usr/lib/libcvP11.so

So:
  - What is the missing link?
  - How to get a PKCS#11 /usr/lib/libcvP11.so library into svn?
  - Could you please add some understandable documentation?

Thank you
Regards
Marc
Received on 2012-08-22 10:04:36 CEST