Your PKCS #11 applications can now function as clients that use the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP). These client applications can communicate with KMIP-compliant servers to create and use symmetric keys. Oracle Solaris provides client support for KMIP v1.1: OASIS Standard, enabling clients to communicate with KMIP-compliant servers such as the Oracle Key Vault (OKV).
This chapter covers the following topics: