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When do NSS Applications spawn threads off the main thread, which in turn opens up a new PKCS #11 session?

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When do NSS Applications spawn threads off the main thread, which in turn opens up a new PKCS #11 session?

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This depends on the application. PKCS #11 sessions are cryptographic session states, independent of threads. In NSS based servers, multiple threads may call the same session, but two threads will not call the same session at the same time.