HSM - cryptoki - opening sessions overhead
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I am having a query regarding sessions with HSM.
I am aware that there is an overhead if you initialise and finalise the cryptoki api for every file you want to encrypt/decrypt.
My queries are,
Is there an overhead in opening and closing individual sessions for every file, you want to encrypt/decrypt.(C_Initialize/C_Finalize)
How many maximum number of sessions can i have for a HSM simultaneously, with out affecting the performance?
Is opening and closing the session for processing individual files the best approach or opening a session and processing multiple files and then closing the session the best approach?
Thanks
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