Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) White Paper
What Is CDSA?
What Is CDSA?
The Common Security Architecture (CDSA) is a set of application program interfaces (APIs) to perform cryptography and other public key infrastructure operations. Additional shared libraries implement the API functionality. The Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) module implements most popular cryptographic algorithms. The Certificate Library (CL) module implements X.509v3 certificate operations. The Trust Policy (TP) and Data Storage Library (DL) are not implemented in this release. CDSA consists of the most popular cryptographic algorithms needed for security applications; the code may be used by C or C++ applications.
HP’s Implementation of CDSA
HP’s initial release of CDSA consists of shared libraries, header and module information files, and manpages for CDSA APIs covering a Common System Security Manager (CSSM), Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP), and Certificate Library (CL). Each manpage describes an API function. HP’s implementation also includes CDSA’s standard service provider interfaces for Data Library (DL) and Trust Policy (TP), although HP is not providing DL or TP
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CSSM (v1.2) Framework
Shared Library
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Header and Module
Information files
CDSA Files on HP-UX
DLTP
Manpages
Not included in first release
As of June 1999, CDSA is available on the
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