Hello, On Mar 31, 2011, at 20:36 , Viktor TARASOV wrote: > Cardmod is promoted by Microsoft and is used (afaik) exclusively by Microsoft > . For the sake of terminology - the concept is called a mini(-)driver and most Miicrosoft originating documentation talks about "a minidriver", not a cardmod.
Don't be fooled from cardmod.h or some other technical short names that start with cm or CM, even if MS has internal technical stuff that refers to it (like CMCK or minidriver certification kit) So there is a "OpenSC PKCS#11 module", "OpenSC Tokend driver" and "OpenSC minidriver". The naming in OpenSC should eventually be fixed as well. It is a Microsoft-only thing, yes. They own the platform after all ;) > In the minidriver documentation it's going about GUID, and GUID has its well > known form in the world of Microsoft . > As far as I've seen, the minidrivers of the card producers have also adopted > this serialized form of GUID . > (From my little experience with CSP I retain also this kind of key container > identifier.) The representation of GUID-s is not a must have. Take any random data and you can format it in a fixed form unique ID (like hashing) or use something else that does the work. One thing I personally dislike is a ultra-verbose XML with a bunch of meaningless (but things that need to match) GUID-s all over the place, like Wix config :). I mean if 1, 2 and 3 guarantee uniqueness in a specific context, GUID-s should not be used. The fact that GUIs that autogenerate such XML find it easy to toss around GUID-s for simplicity doesn't mean we need to copy it. But that's pure demagogy. The thing is: GUID-s are supposed to be machine-parsed. Like PKCS#11 URI-s. If a user needs to deal with GUID-s in real life situations, something else is broken. I don't think that the *user* should be given a knob to tweak the internal format of some technical machine parsed field. I mean - who cares if my partition table is big or little endian if it works ? I'll re-read the e-mails one more time to make sure that I've not misunderstood something. We just need to make sure that whatever we concatenate for the unique ID satisfy the requirements for the uniqueness of the ID. Everything else is pure formatting. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
