Re: [pkcs11-comment] PKCS11 v2.40 vs. v2.30

Hello Gian-Carlo,

I am just a public observer of the PKCS#11 Technical Committee work so please note that my comments are just my personal opinions.

Is the new v2.40 pkcs11.h header file backwards compatible with v2.30?

It is important to note that PKCS#11 v2.40 specification was published without headers [0]. There are draft headers available [1] which will hopefully be published officially as a part of PKCS#11 v2.40 Errata 01 (something like a bugfix update for PKCS#11 v2.40) but they still contain some serious problems [2] that need to be resolved by TC first.

Is there somewhere a description of the changes and additions in v2.40 versus v2.30?

This was exactly my first question posted to this mailinglist [3] and AFAIK there is no description of changes available. Moreover TC is maintaining authoritative specification text in a diff unfriendly MS Word format so it is really hard and annoying task to identify all the changes.

Should I be asking these kinds of questions somewhere else?

AFAIK there is no other public mailing-list more suitable for your questions.

[0] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/pkcs11-comment/201505/msg00002.html
[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-base/v2.40/errata01/csprd01/include/pkcs11-v2.40/
[2] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/pkcs11-comment/201602/msg00001.html
[3] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/pkcs11-comment/201312/msg00003.html

Kind Regards / S pozdravom

Jaroslav Imrich
http://www.jimrich.sk
jaroslav.imrich@gmail.com

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