Hi,
Most 'smart' readers should work on the Macintosh that used the serial
interface that I provided. Readers that rely on line states will have
some issues but not too terrible. What I was looking to do was place a C
PCSC API ( Doug Barlow's SCard API ) that sits on top of OCF so that C
based applications written for Unix or windows could easily be ported to
the Macintosh. There is really not too much to interface. OCF requires
the user to identify the card that is in use but PC/SC tries to take care
of that itself - this does not always work so you can also specify which
card you want to use in PC/SC. PC/SC tries to use the ATR as an
identifying factor though this is not always accurate since many cards
allow you to change the ATR etc. Due to poor ISO standards, this leaves
the card management up to the user which human factors should tell us that
is wrong. PC/SC does give you the options to use either method of
connection though. If any of you will be attending the Linux Expo this
next week please let me know.
The MUSCLE site will probably be distributing OCF code and information
soon. I would like to focus the site on 'Open Source Smartcard
Initiatives'. I will discuss some future plans to interoperate PC/SC and
OCF so we can cover a wide array of platforms using either an OCF Java
interface or a C based PC/SC like interface. I should hopefully be
distributing code for a couple of 'new' smartcard readers also.....
Thanks
Dave
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