RE: question/comment on PKCS#11 3.00 base specification working draft 06

Hi Darren, all,

Looking at section 8 of PKCS#11 version 2.20 spec, it seems that 8.1 and 8.2 are now 2.1 and 2.2 respectively. Thus “section 6” in the sentence you mention is actually “section 2” now – or simply “this section” which avoids future problems…

Old section 8.3. got removed completely, but was included as long comment in pkcs11.h. Thus, I would also add a sentence like “Plattform specific implementation hints can be found in the pkcs11.h header file.”

Talking about this header comment: Shall we really keep information on Win16 and Microsoft Developer Studio 5.0???

Best,

Daniel

From: pkcs11@lists.oasis-open.org <pkcs11@lists.oasis-open.org> On Behalf Of Johnson Darren
Sent: Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2019 13:44
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Subject: [pkcs11] question/comment on PKCS#11 3.00 base specification working draft 06

Hi,

I have one more comment on the base specification.

The last paragraph of Section 2 reads “These directives are described in the remainder of Section 6”. But Section 6 references the profiles and does not appear to cover this topic.

Looking back at older versions of the spec, this was originally section 8, and the reference was to “the remainder of Section 8” which made sense given the content of the old section 8.

Most of the “remainder of Section 8” is now embedded in the header files. So I guess this link/reference was broken as the spec and header files evolved. We should correct this.

Is it enough to update this reference so that it calls out the content in the header files?

Thanks

Darren

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