Re: Crypto APIs

From: Anton Stiglic (stiglic_at_cs.mcgill.ca)
Date: 05/29/03 

Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:08:19 -0400

"Paul Rubin" <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
news:7x1xyiflyb.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...
> "flip" <flip_alpha@safebunch.com> writes:
> > > The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
> >
> > Can you name some of the better known ones?
>
> Java JCA
> IBM CCA2
> PKCS #11 (Cryptoki)
> Microsoft CAPI
>
> I'm probably missing some other obvious ones as well.

The only additional ones that come to mind are

GSS API:
Generic Security Service Application Program Interface

CDSA:
Common Data Security Architecture

There is also Peter Gutmann's Cryptographic Security Architecture
that is implemented in Cryptlib (I don't know what his API is commonly
called...).

--Anton

--Anton