PKCS#11
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| Cryptographic Token Interface Standard |
PKCS#11 |
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| Applications and processes | |
| Applications and threads | |
To Cryptoki, an application consists of a single address space and all the threads of control running in it. An application becomes a "Cryptoki application" by calling the Cryptoki function C_Initialize (see Section 11.4) from one of its threads; after this call is made, the application can call other Cryptoki functions. When the application is done using Cryptoki, it calls the Cryptoki function C_Finalize (see Section 11.4) and ceases to be a Cryptoki application.