Hi Arshad, Arshad Noor wrote: > Two questions: > > 1) What is the difference between the commercial version of the software > vs. OpenSC version? > The commercial version is closed source and we have no clue about it really. OpenSC's version was developed by reverse engineering the Siemens CardOS, in addition to the fact, that OpenSC implements pccs15 and only emulates pkcs11. For more details I suggest to join the OpenSC mailing list. > 2) Why can they both not access the same objects (private keys and certs) > if the objects are stored in industry-standard formats? > No, they are not stored in the same way. The Siemens CardOS is really proprietary. However the nice thing is, that there is software for all platforms both closed and open source, plus both can live on the same token/smart card. > Arshad Noor > StrongAuth, Inc. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:20:57 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles > Subject: Re: Personal crypto device (or smart card) success stories? > > I'd like to note, that the software provided by Aladdin works on > Windows, Linux and Mac. Similar the OpenSC software works on the same > three platforms, but the softwares of each are not compatible with each > other, which means, that both softwares can co-exist on the same > token/smartcard, but one can't read the others keys and certificates. > Hope I formulated that understandable enough. > >
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