# PKCS#11 support on mender server
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/pkcs-11-support-on-mender-server/4587
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [February 9, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pkcs-11-support-on-mender-server/4587 "2022-02-09T09:56:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@sandevins](https://hub.mender.io/u/sandevins)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pkcs-11-support-on-mender-server/4587/1 "2022-02-09T09:56:33Z")
Hi,
Are there any plans to add support for PKCS#11 on a deployed Mender server? There is for the clients, but the private key of the server has still to be in plain text.
Best Regards,
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### Author:  [@eystein](https://hub.mender.io/u/eystein)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pkcs-11-support-on-mender-server/4587/2 "2022-02-22T22:28:08Z")
Hello @sandevins ,
No plans for this at the moment, as the server typically lives in a more secure / tamper proof environment than the client…
That said, we’re open to pull requests, but I am afraid this is a major change because I think it would require all crypto operations in the server be switched to using OpenSSL.
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### Author:  [@sandevins](https://hub.mender.io/u/sandevins)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/pkcs-11-support-on-mender-server/4587/3 "2022-02-25T12:47:46Z")
Dear @eystein,
It’s true that it should be in a more secure environment. But the server usually is a target for attackers and by stealing the secret key that mender uses would allow to impersonate such server.
Regards,