<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> In the review discussion for the ldap schema for pkcs11 there was one topic, which we wanted to get the opinion from a broader audience before making a final decision. In pkcs11 there are many boolean attributes, like CKA_EXTRACTABLE, CKA_DERIVE, CKA_VERIFY and there are two suggestions how to represent them in ldap. 1] one ldap attribute for each pkcs11 attribute. This was my initial proposal to define a ldap attribute with boolean syntax. Most attributes have default values and need not to be present example: pkcs11extractable: true pkcs11derive: false pkcs11verify: true 2] one ldap attribute with pkcs11 attributes as values During the review Simo suggested to have a single attribute (or a few of them, key,cert,...) and for each pkcs11 attribute with value true add it as a value example: pkcs11keyFlags: CKA_EXTRACTABLE pkcs11keyFlags: CKA_VERIFY Pros & Cons pro 1] : <ul> <li> direct mapping of pkcs11attributes </li> <li> required or allowed attributes are defined in an objectclass </li> </ul> con 1]: <ul> <li> huge number of schema attributes, which will probably not be needed </li> </ul> pro 2]: <ul> <li> smaller schema definition </li> <li> possible to add new attributes/flags without extending the schema </li> </ul> con 2]: <ul> <li> no input validation, application could set undefined flags </li> <li> since presence of a flag means TRUE, and absence FALSE all default true values need to be present </li> </ul> An other question was what should be the prefix for the ldap attribute names, the initial proposal was ipapkcs11, which was considered too ipa specific, so the next was pkcs11, where there are now concerns that this might be too ambitious pretending this is somehow official pkcs11. So there are proposals of p11,pk11,c11 which also are used already by others (nss,p11-glue) so any good ideas are welcome <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="LibreOffice 3.5 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> </body> </html>