> 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.
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