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The Netscape svrcore library is a kind of object-oriented package
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for handling PIN requests from NSS.
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Terry Hayes wrote the Netscape svrcore library in 1998.
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Valerie Chu wrote the ntgetpin.c and related files.
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svrcore used to contain two major parts.
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The first part is what we released on mozilla. It is a kind of
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object-oriented package for handling PIN requests from NSS. The
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idea was to provide a standard way for servers to allow PIN input
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from a file or from the terminal. There is also a PIN handler
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that caches the PIN in memory after encrypting it with a key on
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a device (such as a Fortezza card). This allowed a server to
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restart without having to reenter the PIN. However since the PIN
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is encrypted, a core dump would not expose it. In addition,
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removing the device would also make the PIN inaccessible.
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