2012/5/24  <j.witvl...@mindef.nl>:
> Hi all,

Hello,

> Just accidentally I came across some lines in Lodovic's blog.
>
> For the latest version of licccid-1.4.6, he writes:
> "Disable SPE for HP USB CCID Smartcard Keyboard. The reader is bogus and 
> unsafe."
>
> I am not sure what "SPE for HP..." means,
> but I certainly hope I can still use it for our smartcards as we have a 
> couple of thousands of those keyboards.
>
> I hope that it is just an obscure extra feature.

SPE is Secure PIN Entry.
In this mode the PIN is entered on the keyboard (numeric pad) and sent
directly to the smart card without going to the host.

See the note at [1].
I do not have such a keyboard myself. So I can't tell you more about
the problems.

Bye

[1] http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid/unsupported.html#0x03F00x1024

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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