Configuring openCryptoki for EP11 support

After a successful installation of openCryptoki, you need to perform certain configuration and customization tasks to enable the exploitation of the EP11 library functions from applications. Especially, you need to set up tokens and daemons and then initialize the tokens.

openCryptoki, and in particular the slot manager, can handle several tokens, which can have different support for different hardware devices or software solutions. As shown in Figure 1, the EP11 token interacts with the host part of the EP11 library. EP11 can operate with the Crypto Express adapter with EP11 firmware load for symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic functions.

For a complete configuration of the Linux® on Z EP11 enablement, finish the tasks as described in the contained subtopics.

Finally, to control your configuration results, follow the instructions provided in How to recognize an EP11 token.