Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > before I forget: > we also have at least one card reader with wireless interface. > it supports iso 14433A and B and mifare protocols, if I'm not mistaken. > the code to use it is librfid. > > I would prefer not to use the "rfid" name in any way, since has become a > generic word for very different technologies (e.g. contactless smart cards > akaiso 14443A and B and mifare, but also autoid tags aka ISO 18006-C > and predecessors, and also active powered cards (not sure which protocol) > etc.).
That is why keywords should be carefully selected. They should not be confusing, but must be sufficiently generic to be used on other similar devices. > but I'm not sure if the patches to get wireless smart cards going was ever > merged, or if anyone uses them, so there is no urgency at all for this. There is no urgency to define them, but it's nice to think about them. Well, and I have considered, that class and form factor cannot be assigned to card readers, but to slots. Readers with one Class 1 and one Class 3 slot are pretty common (Class 3 for credit card, Class 1 for identification of salesperson. So in the first phase (identifying USB device), we should not assign these keywords to the device: Structure may look as follows: Readers: USB device (category: iso7816.smart_card_reader, numslots) +-slot (category: iso7816.slot, class, form factor,...) +-card (whatever we will need in future) Tokens (maybe): USB device (category: iso7816.smart_token) +-token (category: iso7816.token_chip, class,...) Notes: To implement permissions, it is sufficient to implement just line 1 (and line 1 must have support in HAL). Details of lines 2 and 3 may be defined (and implemented) later. I don't know, whether multi-slot devices use more USB devices, more USB interfaces or only one interface and multi-slot protocol. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbra...@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
