Definitions for "Cryptographic service provider"
Keywords:  csp, cryptoapi, capi, encoding, pkcs
An independent software module that performs cryptography operations such as secret key exchange, digital signing of data, and public key authentication. Any Windows 2000 service or application can request cryptography operations from a CSP. See also CryptoAPI.
(CSP) An independent software module that actually performs cryptography algorithms for authentication, encoding, and encryption.
A cryptographic module that performs cryptographic services, such as key generation, key storage, and encryption, on behalf of software that uses a standard interface such as that defined by PKCS #11 to request such services.