Anthony Scarpino wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Darren J Moffat wrote:
> [...]
>>> Given the way that hardware acceleration is going (ie becoming a CPU
>>> chip feature) I can't see us actually doing anything much about this
>>> in the future either.
>>
>> Ah, but it has ramifications for keystore devices, such as USB
>> dongles, smart cards, and such. I think making this dynamic might be
>> very useful with future uses of PKCS#11.
>
> That would be C_WaitForSlotEvent. That's where a provider, which was
> registered during C_Initialize, comes with a smartcard reader. That
> providers performs an event when a card is inserted or removed.
>
> For C_GetSlotList, it's looking more at providers like PCI cards that
> get dynamically reconfigured on or off the system. I don't believe
> USB sticks or dongles were being consider in such a fashion.. Not to
> say it couldn't be, just not the intent..
DR is useful, although I don't know much keystores get DR'd in and out
of systems. But the situation with USB is pretty much analogous to DR
of PCI cards. Except that I can see this being much more useful to
end-users.
-- Garrett
>
> Tony
>
