..note::

The Botan PKCS#11 interface is implemented against version v2.40 of the standard.

The Botan PKCS#11 interface is implemented against version v3.2 of the standard.

Versions 2.40 upto 3.2 are supported, but only the 3.2 headers are shipped with Botan.

Botan wraps the C PKCS#11 API to provide a C++ PKCS#11 interface. This is done

in two levels of abstraction: a low level API (see:ref:`pkcs11_low_level`) and

The PKCS#11 standards committee provides header files (``pkcs11.h``, ``pkcs11f.h`` and

``pkcs11t.h``) which define the PKCS#11 API in the C programming language. These

header files could be used directly to access PKCS#11 compatible smart cards or

HSMs. The external header files are shipped with Botan in version v2.4 of the standard. The PKCS#11 low

HSMs. A public domain variant of these header files is shipped with Botan in

version v3.2 (Draft wd13) of the standard. This variant is interchangeable with the original

v3.2 header files of OASIS. The PKCS#11 low

level API wraps the original PKCS#11 API, but still allows to access all functions described in the

standard and has the advantage that it is a C++ interface with features like RAII, exceptions

and automatic memory management.

[files]

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"src/lib/prov/pkcs11/pkcs11.h",

"src/lib/prov/pkcs11/pkcs11t.h",

"src/lib/prov/pkcs11/pkcs11f.h",

"src/build-data/cc/msvc.txt",

"src/build-data/cc/clangcl.txt",

"doc/authors.txt",

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pkcs11.h

pkcs11f.h

pkcs11t.h

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