Carlos Henrique Bauer wrote:
IMHO this is a good additional security measure but not
> a replacement for PCSC transactions.
I've got to wonder if the age of applications doing APDUs or even knowing about smartcards specifically needs to come to end. Think about the case of a hardware cryptographic accelerator card - most implementations of that are hidden behind a crypto interface such as PKCS#11, no one really talks "raw crypto card protocol" to the hardware. Why do we still insist of making applications aware of the smartcard hardware instead of abstracting it behind some hardware-neutral interfaces? OCF really tried to do this (may it RIP) with their card services, but unfortunately, for whatever reason, the world insisted on talking at the most basic level to smartcards. I think that way of thinking is what has caused smartcards to have such a minute penetration on the computer desktop. Our discussions of this technology always seem to devolve to sharing the reader, getting the correct reader driver and should I use T=0 or T=1 to talk to the card. I can't think of the last time I had to worry about the SCSI or IDE or Ethernet controller's command sets in order to compose and send an e-mail message to my friends. mike _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
