Hello Ludovic, All,

I see at least 3 issues with auto power-off:

- under Windows (may be also on Linux) the smardcard withdrawal can lock the station; a power off of the cad will result in unexpected log-out.

- a SSO solution may/should rely on a backgroung process that controls all smartcard requests, but still one can design a solution based on an "short life time" application to gain card access (user verification, on-card context establishment) and then small clients for signature, data storage, etc, requests - such clients will expect the card to keep its context.

- JavaCard 3.0 introduces "distributed services", such a card can have running background threads w/o applications actually connected - the card behaves as a server and thus must keep a context alive.

Regards,
Sylvain.


Le 24/10/2010 11:56, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit :

Hello,

I just implemented a new feature in pcsc-lite: card auto power on and off
I describe the mechanism in an article [1] on my blog.

Play with the new code, break it and report bugs :-)

Bye

[1] http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/10/card-auto-power-on-and-off.html




_______________________________________________
Muscle mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle

Reply via email to