> Some time ago we implemented system where smartcard signed continously. In > order to have some understanding how reliable this might be, I did a test. > > I had laptop with Ubuntu or Debian, smartcard with CardOS 4.3 (IIRC) from > Siemens, CCID smartcard reader from Omnikey and small program that just > signed continously. This experiment ran successfully for 540 days and created > approximately 118 million signatures. The process ended with: > > card-cardos.c:838:cardos_compute_signature: returning with: Internal error > > Hardware was still ok, I was able to restart the process.
Same here (Feitian 2001 cards) - routinely able to do many millions on a card - provided that the card (or the SPR351 reader; we’re not sure) is powercylced once a year or so. Dw. _______________________________________________ Pcsclite-muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pcsclite-muscle
