2010/10/24 s.ferey <[email protected]>: > Hello Ludovic, All, Hello,
> 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. Why? The card is not been removed, just powered off. Have you tested what you wrote? > - 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. What happens if another application does a card cold reset between two "short life time" application execution? > - 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. We are talking about PC/SC here. I don't know how the card can talk to the outside world without a PC/SC application having a connection to the card. I think my blog is not clear enough. I first need to understand what you did not understood. Then I will write an addendum. Bye -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
