PKCS#11 SESSIONS & AUTHENTICATION

Role, login and concurrency model

The provider defines whether login state is token-wide or session-scoped, how context-specific authentication works and what happens during failover.

01

Authentication model

AreaRequired statement
RolesSecurity Officer, User and context-specific role support
Login scopeToken-wide versus session-specific behavior
PIN lifecycleInitialization, change, retry counter and lockout
Step-upLocal PIN, remote approval or context login binding
Session expiryIdle/absolute timeout and re-authentication
PoolingSafe reuse rules and application-server guidance

02

Concurrency and HA

  • RO/RW session limits.
  • Multi-thread synchronization requirements.
  • Multi-process object visibility.
  • Token removal and handle invalidation.
  • HA failover and session recreation.
  • Long-running signing cancellation behavior.