PAM PKCS#11

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Analyzed 11 months ago. based on code collected 12 months ago.

Project Summary

This Linux-PAM login module allows a X.509 certificate based user login. The certificate and its dedicated private key are thereby accessed by means of an appropriate PKCS #11 module. For the verification of the users' certificates, locally stored CA certificates as well as either online or locally accessible CRLs are used.

In a Nutshell, PAM PKCS#11...

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has had 850 commits made by 34 contributors
representing 20,539 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
with decreasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 5 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2005
ending with its most recent commit about 1 year ago

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https://github.com/OpenSC/pam_pk...

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LudovicRousseau and Frank Morgner

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