Re: SCHANNEL CSP for WinCE

From: John Banes (jabanes_at_comcast.remove.net)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:37:26 -0800

Nope. Last I heard, WinCE's SSL implementation was fairly monolithic (ported
from NT4 I think) and as such it doesn't use CryptoAPI/CSPs for encryption
or key exchange. It _might_ support calling into a CSP for client
authentication signing--I don't remember.

Regards,
John

"Mick J." <third_man_on_the_moon@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:1132230571.779077.296600@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Are there some applications running on WinCE (4.2 or 5) that use an
> SCHANNEL CSP for SSL ?
> For example does IE on Windows Mobile or other uses a CSP for SSL
> encryption/decryption or authentication ?
> In such a case, it should be possible to replace the default CSP by a
> custom CSP for SSL encryption, right ?
>
> thanks.
>

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