-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Smith wrote: > There is no need to post a message to the list three times.
I didn't. I posted it to gnupg-users and -devel as I felt my enquiry was equally suited to both lists. > You can get aditional information, but unfortunately the information > available is not to particularly satisfying. Yup - that's exactly what I've discovered! > Source code is not available. Here is a quote from an email Werner sent me: [...] >> No, this is not possible because the chip vendors supply chips only to >> large card vendors due to fear of litigation through Pay TV channels. >> They had pretty bad experience with that in recent years. Same goes >> with the firmare supplied with the chip which is the base of the >> (actual very small) application we did. Atmel will even stop the >> production of the chip we are currently using due to force by Pay TV >> lawyers (the same chip is used in many Pay TV scrambling systems; and >> they all use security by litigation). Its all a very sad and >> ridiculous situation. I agree with Werner - it is a very sad and ridiculous situation! > If you can somehow manage to get ahold of a BasicCard OS-based smartcard > that has support for RSA, it would not be too difficult to program it. > Most of the crypto stuff is handled by the chip, so the code needed to > be written is mainly interface code. I shall stop being so lazy, and shall see what can be done! Take care, Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQxMd6+gNmph0Y1E2AQKMvBAAha+pv/VTAQNNSSP+SMqa0dcj2+FYk02B 4emiuFQKGGU4MREfxO5yjaQ+Ly6nF+zOkF1ukK9noDBum7NtWH32Pg5s7oT80b2i JZP0F+8WD1sMemKWxpmuIV6fFhyATUefGTxJ7l7cL1MlmuS0WNYJwkVfyM2jHVQI CLraSzvc/GsObNpXlExlq13WJviUBrGxjnXncXfAdey3/vstTV4xXijo8d3fHrS0 aDP9zEx8FIkx/UcL8G3ME5LB0PkEkgNA0Juzn5nI3EEL2JcjTc6TeXTsR83K1mHO c8TCeiOVEVZQoz1uiKUqyRXoJS4Ugv727ZaSpPOJDEeyJuQlvDyZMB8H8rLpKOyH 5Z027Jvy89gDJkTJX8tOJw6P7q/1USgdDhsO5KX2Wwbu7QK8u8gLVy59FBXkS/vo EOouG/nq/oiSg280CehsywmTCAOaFuYazEwdyxIRzqtpdaFYkpR+LGmBifyQ+64/ RF8hpRzFvY7xkUeOUOHJO1Clv0yrRbCag7qY2h0bmhJ0y5ExgpOP7+hSQlhOvsIz 2KAmkVWMfagstTaqreuetkvLGssdKoLBoO87ufOrSmllge+P0y7Lg4h9sTZrmq9t QtblvPAFFGTdqCscuNBlJ90ict7ScIBUsUZ/PWGTrv1TQaLo5wKvJAt1chUHrhdk 1aFjc+GZXY0= =5vX+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
