I've recently worked on a better version of pkcs11-helper. I've also merged

it into QCA (Qt Cryptographic Architecture), so that KDE 4 will finally be
able to use smartcards.

The changes allows the following features:

1. Thread safe, is activated if USE_PTHREAD.

2. Slot event - Will allow us in the future to disconnect VPN when smartcard
is removed. In order to support this OpenVPN must support threading... At
least SIGUSR1 from a different thread. Threading should be supported in both
Windows and Linux. -- currently disabled.

When I talk about threading support it is just support in configuration script
and that the method that SIGUSR1 self can be called from a different thread.
I already handle the monitor threads.

3. Certificate enumeration - Will allow us to finally have one configuration
file for all users! When you add the plugin GUI stuff you talked about, we will
be able to display a list of available certificates for the user to select.
-- currently disabled.

4. Data object manipulation - Will allow us to store tls-auth on the smartcard
as well. -- currently disabled.

5. Many other minor improvements.

Alon Bar-Lev


git-svn-id: http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn@990 e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5

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