On 2012-02-20 23:23, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: <snip> > IMHO, CCID is superior as it is really plug-and-play under all systems. > Of course, CCID is needed, but it could be installed under all systems > by default. The last versions of libccid with udev really rocks. Pure > plug-and-play never exists, you always need an underlying library. > libccid is that library.
Jean-Michel, I'm not following you here. CCID (as I understand it) only defines an USB communication protocol/class, not how for example how to do an RSA signature. When I look into my W7 installation I note that when I attach my ePass2003 token to it, there is a driver from "EnterSafe". That doesn't look particularly universal to me. In addition, in order to do something useful with the token I had to install a specific ePass2003 management program. It worked great BTW! Don't get me wrong but from a *customer perspective* it would have been much better if all this software was a part of a platform's "smart card support". My guess is that the smart card industry can't do that which is one of the motivations behind my SKS/KeyGen2 project. Upgrading ePass2003 to PIV is an intermediary step. I believe the management part unfortunately is largely undefined in PIV but maybe somebody else know better? Douglas? <snip> Cheers, Anders _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
