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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 add-in modules.

Figure 1-1 HP-UX CDSA Product Overview

CSSM (v1.2) FrameworkShared Library

CSP	CL	DL	TP
shared library	shared library
Header and Module			Manpages
Information files
		Not included in first release

CDSA Files on HP-UX

As of June 1999, CDSA is available on the HP-UX 11.0 Application CD. In the future, it will

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