George,

Please use PKCS #11 for applications:
.It is the langua franca API for tokens
.Mozilla and a lot of commercial applications are using pkcs#11
.For a token vendor, it means less APIs to regression test, lower cost
& safer products.
 

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>   Actually this is very similar to what we were doing for KDE 3.0 as well. I
> was unaware of this work and we were developing a similar system using shared
> libs loaded on demand for "card implementations".  All in C++ using KDE
> classes though.  I'm wondering if maybe we should abandon that or rework it
> to use this now.  I am working with GPK cards and the other person is using
> GSM cards.
> 
>    We wanted to implement a very abstract architecture so that KDE
> applications could use smartcards without having to know the details of them.
>  In particular, this would be used for storage, SSL certificates, and KDM
> login.
> 
>    Would it make sense for us to make a KDE friendly wrapper around this code
> instead?
> 
> --
>
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