corePKCS11 v3.4.0
PKCS #11 Cryptoki Library
Overview

PKCS #11 Crypto Abstraction Library.

PKCS #11 is a standard maintained by OASIS for interacting with cryptographic hardware.

Official documentation of PKCS #11 from oasis

This corePKCS11 library implements a subset of the PKCS #11 API required to establish a secure connection to AWS IoT:

  • Verifying the signature of the contents of a message.
  • Signing a message.
  • Managing certificates and keys.
  • Generating random numbers.

Memory Requirements

Memory requirements of the PKCS #11 library.

Code Size of corePKCS11 (example generated with GCC for ARM Cortex-M)
File
With -O1 Optimization
With -Os Optimization
core_pkcs11.c
0.8K
0.8K
core_pki_utils.c
0.5K
0.3K
core_pkcs11_mbedtls.c
8.7K
7.3K
Total estimates
10.0K
8.4K