On Tuesday, April 26 at 09:07PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Frank Morgner wrote: > > But you can also accept the overhead and use standardized > > interfaces. This approach gives you support for a wide variety of > > applications and (existent) hardware/software. > > The *only* interface that matters is p11.
This is not true in many regards. But if all you focus on is p11 then I can understand you. > All the other crap is 30 year old legacy that the world would be > better without, sooner rather than later! > > Thus it makes sense to implement p11 directly on top of a modern > transport. So the age is your argument? Wikipedia says that PKCS was created 1991, 4 years before 7816-4 was released. Anyway, no need to go deeper into this. If you need nothing more than to transfer bytes conforming to p11, you might as well avoid overhead caused by everything else. BTW, neither the CCID-emulator nor the virtual smartcard mentioned earlier [1] are forcing you to use APDUs and allowing you to exchange buffers of any kind (at least if #237 [2] was realised). Cheers, Frank. [1] http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-devel/2011-April/016504.html [2] http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/ticket/237
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