Virtualizing the SO (Security Officer)

[Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>]

For on-line enrollments the SO concept doesn't really work.
If on-line enrollments is in scope for PKCS #11 you rather need a virtual (network-based) SO.

FWIW, in SKS/KeyGen2 the solution is as follows:

It is the USER that grants initial rights to key generation etc.
The ISSUER may during provisioning also specify a KMK (Key Management Key) which will be associated with generated keys in that SESSION.
Future sessions that target existing keys must then be AUTHORIZED with the proper KMK.
I call this concept VSD (Virtual Security Domain).

http://webpki.org/papers/keygen2/keygen2.junit.run.html#PlatformNegotiationRequest.UpdateKey.1
https://openkeystore.googlecode.com/svn/resources/trunk/docs/sks-api-arch.pdf

thanx,
Anders