Hello, On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Andre Zepezauer wrote: > it's hard to imagine that the demand of these devices is still so > limited, because they fit nicely into every laptop/netbook with SD card > slot. A lot better than every usb key or smart card. With the > availability of an ifd-handler and support form opensc it would be an > easy to use plug and play solution. The whole host side software is > already in place with the exception of the idf-handler. That's sad.
I believe the reason why smart cards exist is their common, agreed upon form factor and the existence of related infrastructure pieces. Like pinpad smart card readers. For permanent built-in crypto operations, the TPM chip should be the most hip thing currently (at least it was for a while, I don't know the exact status of TPM deployment on desktop machines). For pluggable devices, USB is still more relevant than SD. My laptop does not have a SD card slot but I don't know a laptop without USB. I think one of the main driving forces of (micro)SD based crypto tokens is the smartphone market [1]. Even though smartphones already contain a smart card (SIM) it is very hard/almost impossible to deploy SIM cards with crypto capabilities on larger scale because of the greedy ignorant bastard named "mobile operator". [1] http://code.google.com/p/seek-for-android/ -- Martin Paljak @martinpaljak.net +3725156495 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
