High assurance cryptographic interface specification
dan at lanz.us
dan at lanz.us
Fri Apr 16 10:01:49 PDT 2010
I have been involved for the past several years in the development
of a specification Common Interface to Cryptographic Modules
(CICM) that defines an application programming interface specifically
for high assurance cryptographic modules. High assurance modules
are typically developed by countries for their government, diplomatic
and military communications. The interface differs from commercial
interface standards like PKCS#11 primarily for its support for domain
separation, but also for the richer module and key management
capabilities required by high assurance modules. To my knowledge,
CICM is the first generic high assurance API that has been developed.
There has been considerable interest in the specification in the high
assurance community.
The specification has recently been submitted to the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an Internet Draft and is available at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-lanz-cicm/ . I would like to
encourage interested individuals to participate in the standardization
process through the IETF. If you have an interest in this effort, feel
free to sign up for the IETF CICM mailing list by visiting
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cicm .
Dan
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