BSD Portswip/svrcore 4.0.4 NetBSD
Netscape svrcore is a kind of library to handle NSS PIN requests
- System
- NetBSD
- Repository
- pkgsrc-wip
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- License
- gnu-gpl-v2 OR gnu-lgpl-v2.1 OR mpl-1.1
- Categories
- wip, security
Description
The Netscape svrcore library is a kind of object-oriented package for handling PIN requests from NSS.
Terry Hayes wrote the Netscape svrcore library in 1998. Valerie Chu wrote the ntgetpin.c and related files.
svrcore used to contain two major parts.
The first part is what we released on mozilla. It is a kind of object-oriented package for handling PIN requests from NSS. The idea was to provide a standard way for servers to allow PIN input from a file or from the terminal. There is also a PIN handler that caches the PIN in memory after encrypting it with a key on a device (such as a Fortezza card). This allowed a server to restart without having to reenter the PIN. However since the PIN is encrypted, a core dump would not expose it. In addition, removing the device would also make the PIN inaccessible.
Install
From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):
cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/svrcore && make install clean