Chapter 5 CDSA Programming Concepts

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This chapter provides an overview of programming with CDSA on OpenVMS. This chapter should be read in conjunction with the Intel Common Data Security Architecture Application Developer's Guide, the Intel Common Data Security Architecture Service Provider Developer’s Guide, and the Intel Common Data Security Architecture Manifest Signing Tools User’s Guide.

This chapter covers the following topics:

An overview of building a CDSA application on OpenVMS (see “Overview of CDSA Programming on OpenVMS”)
Details about writing a signed CDSA application or add-in module (see “Writing Signed Applications”)
Steps to deploy signed applications and service provider modules ( see “Deploying Signed Applications and Service Provider Modules”)
Descriptions of the CDSA example programs (see “CDSA Example Programs”)
Information about CDSA errors and how to get a meaningful error return (see “Decode_CDSA_Error” on page 258 and “Print_CDSA_Error” on page 415.)

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