Just ran a test - the PKCS11 PIN callback is not being called...which was what I expected but it was worth a try...

We are using hardware based keys injected into CAPI through SmartCard middleware. It does not go through PKCS11.

If there is any chance this might invoke the JCAPIPKCS11PINCallback, I can give it a shot, but as they are not loaded as PKCS11 sources, it did not feel right...

Our application accesses password protected keys and we would like to use our own password prompting for these keys.

In JCAPI, I do not see any way to set this password. I tried providing a password for the private key but this did not work.

Is there a way to set this password? If not is it something that you would consider for an enhancement?

FYI - Under our C# code, we do this by setting CspParameters.KeyPassword to the user provided password. I have not coded this at the C layer, but I believe this maps to CryptSetProvParam with values some variations of PP_SECURE_KEYEXCHANGE_PIN, PP_KEYEXCHANGE_PIN, PP_SECURE_SIGNATURE_PIN, and PP_SIGNATURE_PIN.

This appears to have resolved the issue. Thanks.

I am evaulating JCAPI and found that if I build and run under JDK 1.7.0_01, the JCAPI fails to initialize. If I switch to 1.6, it works fine. It seems to be the same error as the FAQ on Windows 2008/DEP references but I cannot locate a simple disable-DEP option in Windows 7 (and I really don't want to have to tell all my users to disable DEP for thsi app).


I am using 32-bit Windows 7 fully patched. My test code to this point has only run 1 line of code:

Provider provider = new JCAPIProvider();

Can you offer any suggestions on this? In the meantime I'll proceed to evaluate with Java 1.6.


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at com.mychoiceid.jcapitest.App.initProvider(App.java:30)
at com.mychoiceid.jcapitest.App.main(App.java:44)
Caused by: java.security.ProviderException: C:\Users\redacted\AppData\Local\Temp\JCAPI32.dll: Invalid access to memory location
at com.pheox.jcapi.j.a(Unknown Source)
at com.pheox.jcapi.JCAPIProvider.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
... 2 more

*** EDIT ***
I attached a copy of the output of my app running under JDK1.6 including the output from JCAPIUtil.getEnvironmentInfo()
Under JDK1.7, it crashes as soon as I call any function in JCAPIUtil, so I cannot output those details.