<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>PKCS#11 Configuration: p11-kit</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="p11-kit"> <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="p11-kit"> <link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="p11-kit"> <link rel="next" href="config-example.html" title="Example"> <meta name="generator" content="GTK-Doc V1.33.1 (XML mode)"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table class="navigation" id="top" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5"><tr valign="middle"> <td width="100%" align="left" class="shortcuts"></td> <td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td> <td><img src="up-insensitive.png" width="16" height="16" border="0"></td> <td><a accesskey="p" href="index.html"><img src="left.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td> <td><a accesskey="n" href="config-example.html"><img src="right.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> </tr></table> <div class="chapter"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"> <a name="config"></a>PKCS#11 Configuration</h1></div></div></div> <div class="toc"><dl class="toc"> <dt><span class="section"><a href="config.html#config-introduction">Consistent configuration</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="config-example.html">Example</a></span></dt> <dt><span class="section"><a href="config-files.html">Configuration Files</a></span></dt> </dl></div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="config-introduction"></a>Consistent configuration</h2></div></div></div> <p>In order for multiple applications on the user's desktop to use PKCS#11 modules in a consistent manner, there must be a configuration or registry to specify which modules to load and how to use them. The PKCS#11 specification does not specify such a configuration standard. </p> <p>Because of the multi-library module initialization problem, use of PKCS#11 modules must be coordinated within an application. p11-kit provides that coordination. Since coordination is required, it follows that p11-kit can also implement a consistent module configuration. </p> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <hr>Generated by GTK-Doc V1.33.1</div> </body> </html>