Il 19/08/2012 15:50, Anders Rundgren ha scritto: > Everything you write is fine and probably correct as well. > The only "fly in the soup" is that *it is not happening*. I think it will be just like the TPM: when enough people will realize what it is, it won't get accepted by the public. It's not long since "restricted boot" 'failed' and memory isn't so short.
> The smart card community has failed creating a cheap a readily > available token that can be provisioned on-line while for example > iPhone and Android already ships with built-in enrollment software. It's still WIP: look at OpenKMS... > However, there will always be a small market that prefers something > special. That's for sure :) > I'm rather talking about the 99.999% that believes cost and availability > matter. I also think that the poor GUI support offered by smart cards > will make these look quite dated compared to virtual smart cards having > cool logotypes and stuff. SCs *are really* dated as concept. Old, messy interface, conflicting high-level "standards" (so many that everybody uses his own)... That's why a token or even a small "calculator format" w/ USB connectivity (and a standardized 'KISS' interface over the USB bus) would be better. Such a device could easily cost less than $100 (you can already find Android tablets w/ 7" display and cap ts at about $65, with wifi or even GSM connectivity! -- probably the only really needed piece of software needed could be a driver to use the SIM reader as a CAD, plus some "glue"). BYtE, Diego. _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
