Zeljko wrote: >> >> I would have help merging it if I knew that there is a chance to merge >> it into to gpg source. >> > Judging by the discussion on this list.. it seems that there is no chance for that :(
> Look in the archives of gnupg lists, IIRC it is around November 2004, for threads started by me. I was quickly discouraged by Werner and > nowhere as persistent as you in trying to persuade him into the usefulness of PKCS#11. Yes... I agree... I gave up... Tried to help... And failed. > IMHO, PKCS#11 has succeeded where ISO7816 has failed: providing a > (relatively) simple way to interface with many smart-card implementations, many of which aren't ISO7816-compliant above level 3 - they even don't > support basic interindustry commands, but provide their own proprietary and undocumented command set. I agree! > Personally, I think that applications not supporting PKCS#11 and/or MS CAPI will become extinct much before than non-compliant ISO7816 cards. > These two have become the de-facto industry standards. I'm no fortune teller, so time will prove me right or wrong :) This is exactly my claim... I've tried to introduce this argument to Werner... But without any success... I was out of new arguments when I gave up... I think that an open source project that does not support software interaction standards will be replaced by a different solution when the time comes. Best Regards, Alon Bar-Lev. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
