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The Netscape svrcore library
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Terry Hayes wrote the Netscape svrcore library in 1998.
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Valerie Chu wrote the ntgetpin.c and related files.
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svrcore used to contain two major parts.
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The first part is what we released on mozilla. It is a kind of
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object-oriented package for handling PIN requests from NSS. The
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idea was to provide a standard way for servers to allow PIN input
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from a file or from the terminal. There is also a PIN handler
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that caches the PIN in memory after encrypting it with a key on
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a device (such as a Fortezza card). This allowed a server to
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restart without having to reenter the PIN. However since the PIN
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is encrypted, a core dump would not expose it. In addition,
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removing the device would also make the PIN inaccessible.
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The files are:
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svrcore.h - API definition
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alt.c - allows two possible PIN request methods to be used (say
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file and then terminal)
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cache.c - caches the result from another PIN request method
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errors.c - error text
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file.c - reads the PIN from a specified file
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ntgetpin.c - Windows version of a user prompt for PIN
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ntgetpin.rc - Windows resource script for ntgetpin.c
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ntresource.h - a generated include file used by ntgetpin.rc
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key.ico - an icon used by ntgetpin.rc
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logo.ico - an icon used by ntgetpin.rc
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pin.c - functions to register a PIN request object with NSS
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pk11.c - implementation of the encrypted in-memory caching
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std.c - a "standard" PIN object that satisfies requests from a
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file or the terminal and allows caching if desired.
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user.c - prompts the user for the PIN
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Note: the pk11.c file (secure PIN store) is a pretty good example
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of how to encrypt/decrypt with NSS.
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There was a second component of svrcore that handled export policy
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configuration. It allowed patching of a single executable (single
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program build) to create the export and domestic versions of a
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server. This code was discontinued after the export policy changes.
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The LDAP C SDK tools use svrcore. They also implemented their
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own PIN object to allow command line PIN entry. The directory
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server also implemented its own PIN object to allow a watchdog
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process to cache the PIN and restart the server.
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