It seems that there are big hopes associated with Microsoft's MiniDriver. I don't understand why because it is poorly documented, has zero standards status, and has AFAIK only been implemented in Windows.
Another issue is that I don't see how the MiniDriver provisioning model could be transferred to mobile phones since the concept of shared secrets for card management assumes that there is a relation between the card and the issuer which doesn't scale particularly well. Why is this even important you may wonder? Because "Virtual Smart Cards" using embedded security HW is already a feature in Windows 8: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/HW-462T IMHO, it doesn't make sense to have different provisioning methods for discrete and virtual smart cards, particularly not for PKI cards. Also IMO, it is the card industry who must update their provisioning model otherwise they may lose the battle against the virtual cards which from the beginning where made to support multiple issuers and scalability! Anders _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
