On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:05 +0300, Martin Paljak wrote: > 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.
Pinpad readers (like all external readers) are good for desktop and office PCs. In the netbook market they will never become the equipment of choice. Furthermore there are so many people don't having a desktop PC but something portable. Even if there portables never leave there desk. For those people (including me) smarter solutions would be more appealing than the "[age old] infrastructure pieces". > 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). That's exactly what I want: "permanent built-in crypto". If not soldered on the board, then with good integration at least. > 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/ _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
