On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 17:45 +0300, Martin Paljak wrote: > Hello, > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 17:37, Andre Zepezauer > <andre.zepeza...@student.uni-halle.de> wrote: > >> More elegant indeed. Some nice documentation about the real meaning of the > >> flag would also be nice. "most cards do almost ISO" to support pinpads. > >> But not all support the status query... > > > > Maybe I'm wrong, but IMO Viktor had implemented the status query through > > empty data field some time ago. So, there would be at least two cards > > which does support it. > > > > There was discussion about it a few months ago, probably at the same > time. The general consensus (also my personal opinion) seemed to be > that it is safer not to probe the card, as there are several cards > that don't support the convention and some even decrease the retry > counter (like the buggy new ID-card in Estonia...) > > Even though many cards override pin_cmd, extra care should be taken to > not accidentally block a PIN code, thus the feature (like a flag) > should be set case-by-case.
Would it be safe enough to set a specific flag in the drivers init function? And if set, then the status query could be performed without casing harm. Open questions: * is it worth to make that effort * how many cards do have support for that feature _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
