OASIS members and other interested parties,
OASIS and the PKCS #11 TC are pleased to announce that two PKCS #11 draft specifications are now available for public review and comment.
The OASIS PKCS #11 Technical Committee develops enhancements to improve the PKCS #11 standard for ease of use in code libraries, open source applications, wrappers, and enterprise/COTS products: implementation guidelines, usage tutorials, test scenarios and test suites, interoperability testing, coordination of functional testing, development of conformance profiles, and providing reference implementations.
The documents and all related files are available here:
PKCS #11 Specification Version 3.2
Committee Specification Draft 01
16 April 2025
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-spec/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-spec-v3.2-csd01.docx (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-spec/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-spec-v3.2-csd01.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-spec/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-spec-v3.2-csd01.pdf
Zip of the complete set of files:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-spec/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-spec-v3.2-csd01.zip
PKCS #11 Profiles Version 3.2
Committee Specification Draft 01
15 April 2025
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-profiles/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-profiles-v3.2-csd01.docx (Authoritative)
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-profiles/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-profiles-v3.2-csd01.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-profiles/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-profiles-v3.2-csd01.pdf
Zip of the complete set of files:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/pkcs11/pkcs11-profiles/v3.2/csd01/pkcs11-profiles-v3.2-csd01.zip
How to Provide Feedback
OASIS and the PKCS #11 value your feedback. We solicit input from developers, users and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
The public review is now open and ends 29 July 2025 at 23:59 UTC.
Comments may be submitted to the project by any person through the use of the project's Comment Facility. Members of the TC should submit feedback directly to the TC's members-only mailing list. All others should follow the instructions listed here.
All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [1] applicable especially to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.
OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.
Additional information about the specification and the PKCS #11 can be found at the public home page here.
Additional references:
[1] https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/