hangs with active p11-kit modules

Stef Walter stefw at gnome.org
Tue Aug 14 22:25:05 CEST 2012


On 08/14/2012 06:11 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> There is no such notion as an unlocked smart card. A key may be
> protected by PIN in the smart card but it is not mandatory.
> Nevertheless, the gnutls initialization only initializes the pkcs11
> driver, which reports the number of slots available etc, it doesn't
> access any smart card. I wouldn't expect a long delay on that, unless
> there is some issue in the driver you're using.

The opensc driver when used with a Feitan token has this issue.
C_Initialize takes forever. :(

But I agree it's a problem with the module.

Stef




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