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<concept id="GUID-8D4F44CB-0B4D-51EE-A2D7-A1BBB3DD326A" xml:lang="en"><title>Keystore

Framework</title><shortdesc>Keystore framework provides interfaces for implementing a keystore.

A key store is a repository of keys that can be stored and retrieved to perform

cryptographic operations such as listing stored keys, generating, importing

and exporting of RSA, DSA, and DH key pairs and performing private key operations

for authenticated users of phone. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<section id="GUID-6C4B35F7-2BB3-5AF4-875F-766C3DFF2112"><title>Description</title> <p>The

keystore framework is an extension of <xref href="GUID-C7150120-74C2-5FF1-99F0-0A267393E342.dita">CryptoToken

framework</xref>. The framework provides interfaces that must be implemented

to retrieve keys from the key store. It provides the following functionalities: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-1C594AF0-F534-50FD-B286-EB4E1BF834B6"><p>Signing through keys

in signature algorithms such as RSA and DSA </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-EAFBE61D-C669-576E-9005-488DAACE4197"><p>Encrypting and decrypting

operations using keys </p> </li>

</ul> <p>Device creators can use the interfaces provided by the framework

to implement keystore for managing keys. </p> <fig id="GUID-73BAE36F-8C14-585D-A2EB-9939CEFB38C2">

<title>              Symbian Keystore Implementation            </title>

<image href="GUID-AF91088E-CCE3-5D51-B2E4-09621B4BF506_d0e613554_href.jpg" placement="inline"/>

</fig> <table id="GUID-A3996684-57CF-5049-B24A-2E3E7B157D43">

<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col0"/><colspec colname="col1"/>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><p> <b>Classes</b>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p> <b>Description</b>  </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTTokenInterface</apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Provides an interface for the implementation of an appropriate token

(here, token refers to a key). </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MKeyStore</apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Defines an interface to implement a read-only keystore. </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTKeyStore</apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Defines an interface to implement a read-only keystore token. This

class allows retrieving details of a key stored in a keystore. </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTKeyStoreManager</apiname></xref>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Defines the interface to implement a keystore manager </p> </entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</table> <p><b>Keystore framework interfaces</b></p><p>The keystore framework

provides interfaces for the following functionalities: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-391E4CA1-F6C7-54FC-B630-AE0FBD706E39"><p> <b>Retrieval of keys</b>: </p> <p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTTokenObject</apiname></xref> is used to retrieve a

token specific to implementation of <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTTokenInterface</apiname></xref>.

The retrieved token object is used to perform cryptographic operations such

as signing, decryption and so on. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-0720C046-AD66-5992-BBED-E5BCE7882FB7"><p> <b>Key information</b>: </p> <p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>CKeyInfoBase</apiname></xref> forms the base class for <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>CCTKeyInfo</apiname></xref>. All key store implementations

need to interface with this class for accessing or manipulating key details. </p> <p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>CCTKeyInfo</apiname></xref> contains all the relevant

information of a key such as ID, type, size, usage, algorithm, security policy

associated to the key. It's implementation is derived from <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTTokenObject</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>CKeyInfoBase</apiname></xref>. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-5CC341C4-CAF1-5975-A262-3DB9985FBAEE"><p> <b>Protection of keys</b>: </p> <p> <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTAuthenticationObject</apiname></xref> provides interface

to control authentication mechanism of the keys. It allows to query and manipulate

authentication objects that are returned as token interface from <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTAuthenticationObjectList</apiname></xref>. It is accessed

by calling a function of <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>CCTKeyInfo</apiname></xref>. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-65B4C977-D4A1-5EDB-B36E-CD2B248AE346"><p> <b> Cryptographic operations</b>: </p> <p> <b>Signing</b>: <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTSigner</apiname></xref> provides interface to implement

signing through keys. The framework supports two types of signing algorithms;

RSA and DSA through the <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MRSASigner</apiname></xref> and

the <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MDSASigner</apiname></xref> classes. </p> <p> <b>Decryption</b>: <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTDecryptor</apiname></xref> provides interface to implement

decryption functionality through keys. </p> <p> <b>DH agreement </b>: <xref href="GUID-79B9C190-E68F-34F2-8A6C-8350A66D6BAE.dita"><apiname>MCTDH</apiname></xref> provides interface to implement <xref href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman_key_exchange" scope="external">Diffie

Hellman (DH) key</xref> exchange protocol. </p> </li>

</ul> <fig id="GUID-6B46BC3C-77F3-59DF-8579-DB0076304835">

<title>                 Keystore Framework Interfaces               </title>

<image href="GUID-D99BA39B-BC58-51AC-B148-0945736FFC03_d0e613794_href.jpg" placement="inline"/>

</fig> </section>

</conbody><related-links>

<link href="GUID-695FCEB8-EA04-5C1C-A197-648275BA0281.dita"><linktext>Unified Keystore </linktext>

</link>

<link href="GUID-C7150120-74C2-5FF1-99F0-0A267393E342.dita"><linktext>CryptoToken

Framework Overview</linktext></link>

</related-links></concept>