CDSA deprecated in OS X Lion. What replaces it?

Question

I just read that CDSA is deprecated in OS X 10.7.

What is the recommended replacement?

I am especially interested in the plugin framework: what is the new way to implement access to smartcards etc.? Tokend is deprecated now: what does Mail and Safari use to access private keys?

Answer 1

As it seems by Apple's own CommonCrypto system.

• Here's a link to the man pages.
• It seems to have been originally developed for iOS.