Hello, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:03, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundg...@telia.com> wrote: > With yet another record-quarter and having one of the most popular devices > ever made, Apple is in a unique position of enhancing iPhone to also work as > a stack of smart cards. It is technically by no > means very difficult either.
From practical point of view: I've heard that 10.7 breaks (again) Safari support for smart cards (at least with OpenSC.tokend). Yet "other browsers" like Chrome work. The rumor also tells that CDSA (the "crypto platform" behind OS X) has been deprecated and replaced by something new. Will see when their new platform comes out, I don't think it is reasonable to fight with windmills with a company that is known to do whatever they want. > One may argue that it will take a few years to do that but that should be > compared with the EXTREMELY SLOW development going on in the smart card > community. For example there is no [reasonable] way > you can provision a card using a standard browser since the card industry > doesn’t do browsers. Apple do browsers... Traditional smart cars IMHO are not supposed to be self-subscribed. But the failed trusted computing (maybe not failed, but "the next big thing in IT security that has taken years to come") might probably be re-born as "identity tokens" in mobile devices (identity which is disconnected from the other greedy beast, the telecom operator). Given that almost all consumer devices have been rooted to date, I doubt the "trusted computing" theme will succeed in mobiles either. Maybe it even shouldn't. If we omit the whining, what could we do? Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
