On 2011-11-27 14:32, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > 2011/11/27 Anders Rundgren <anders.rundg...@telia.com>: >> On 2011-11-26 09:45, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: >>> Hello Douglas and Anders, >>> >>> 2011/11/25 Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov>: >>>> On 11/24/2011 4:02 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >>>>> Hi Ludovic, >>>>> >>>>> You are a true smart card middleware expert. >>>>> I'm not and my customers are even less of that. >>>>> They just want to plug in and go. >>>>> >>>>> As it appears the smart card community/industry have created >>>>> uniquely complex middleware for reasons unclear to me. >>>> >>>> I never could understand it, either. >>> >>> What do you think is complex in the PC/SC API? >>> What would you like to change? >> >> I know very little about PC/SC; I'm just puzzled by the lack >> of interoperability that seems to be at hand. > > You know "very little about PC/SC" but you find it "uniquely complex > middleware". > Do you know a precise "lack or interoperability"?
As I wrote in my first posting on this topic the Java package didn't [IMHO] exhibit reasonable interoperability out-of-the-box. I don't know if this is due to an unwieldy specification or if it simply a matter of uncoordinated distributions. When I said "uniquely complex middleware" I wasn't referring to PC/SC alone, but to the entire SC "stack" like outlined on page #2 in: http://webpki.org/papers/keygen2/sks-keygen2-exec-level-presentation.pdf It doesn't get any better when the leading enterprise desktop OS vendor claims that their proprietary "MiniDriver" is the solution. It's a bloody mess! Anders > > Regards, > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
