RE: Request for vendor defined mechanism allocation

["Fenwick, Valerie" <valerie.fenwick@intel.com>]

Hi Somesh â

 

We donât reserve ranges of vendor defined mechanisms, other than what range they can be in. That is, 2 separate vendors may use the same IDs, which require the applications to understand what libraries they are calling into and the expected behavior.

 

What are the mechanisms for? We have many new mechanisms coming out in PKCS#11 v3.0 and you may find your needs are already met by the standard.

 

Thank you,

 

Valerie

 

From: pkcs11-comment@lists.oasis-open.org <pkcs11-comment@lists.oasis-open.org> On Behalf Of Chakrabarti, Somesh
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 4:23 PM
To: pkcs11-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [pkcs11-comment] Request for vendor defined mechanism allocation

 

Dear PKCS11 committee and members,

 

We want to reserve a block of vendor defined mechanism codes for AWS CloudHSM. Can you please let us know what is required to do this?

 

Thank you,

Somesh Chakrabarti

Sr Security Engineer, AWS CloudHSM