Searching for usable implementation of CSP on top of pkcs 11

Question

I found a few dead projects on this title.

Some referenced here.

I need one. But why are they all dead? Is it bad idea to use such design? do you know of any good implementation which does this?

Answer 1

Some Smart Card vendors were providing CSP over PKCS#11 (not open source). In my opitnion, htis is not the best way of developping a CSP. These 2 standards are very different, and even more different since the venue of CNG and Credential Providers under 'recent' Windows OS.