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== Contents ==
 
== Contents ==
  
This page explores design concepts for Barbican plugin interfaces.
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This page explores design concepts for Barbican plugin interfaces. Barbican currently uses plugins to interface with cryptographic resources such as hardware security modules (HSMs). This page also discusses how the plugin approach could accommodate the planned addition of SSL certificate generation and management to the ''orders'' resource.
  
 
== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==

Revision as of 00:18, 3 May 2014

Contents

This page explores design concepts for Barbican plugin interfaces. Barbican currently uses plugins to interface with cryptographic resources such as hardware security modules (HSMs). This page also discusses how the plugin approach could accommodate the planned addition of SSL certificate generation and management to the orders resource.

Overview

The following figure depicts a generic plugin dataflow within Barbican.

Generic Plugin Data Flow