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Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?



On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Ole Wolf wrote:

> That would be a preferred solution, but regrettably not an option. The
> background is that the Danish government has mandated the use of a shared
> authorization service which creates keys for each individual in Denmark. The
> private keys are created and stored by that authorization service and never
> handed over to the users, violating a basic principle of security, but
> unfortunately there's very little we can do about that.
>
> The authorization service also provides a PKCS#11 application that enables
> users to sign and encrypt documents using a personal certificate.

What does this app do? Can it not be replaced with something more
standard, say OpenSSL?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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