Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Dear all, > OK. What do you propose? I propose to incorporate OpenSC as a French association under the loi 1901 law, under a general agreement. There are millions of associations in France and the government provides a generic paper for incorporation. I propose to use this paper without modificat

[opensc-devel] Managing devices simultaneously

2012-03-21 Thread Szabó Áron
Dear Members, I made some queries in Google to find out what limitations are there at managing huge number of smart cards, USB tokens (and keys) simultaneously at the level of CSP, or PKCS#11, but just opensc.conf file gave me some answers. # Maximum Number of virtual slots. # Default: 16 # ma

Re: [opensc-devel] Managing devices simultaneously

2012-03-21 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
Le 21 mars 2012 11:27, Szabó Áron a écrit : > Dear Members, Hello, > I made some queries in Google to find out what limitations are there at > managing huge number of smart cards, USB tokens (and keys) simultaneously at > the level of CSP, or PKCS#11, but just opensc.conf file gave me some > ans

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Douglas E. Engert
On 3/21/2012 5:32 AM, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > Dear all, > >> OK. What do you propose? > > I propose to incorporate OpenSC as a French association under the loi > 1901 law, under a general agreement. There are millions of associations > in France and the government provides a generic pa

Re: [opensc-devel] Managing devices simultaneously

2012-03-21 Thread NdK
Il 21/03/2012 11:27, Szabó Áron ha scritto: > What is the maximum number (if any exists at this level) of regular smart > cards, USB tokens (and keys) that can be used and managed by OpenSC in the > same environment (USB controller supports up to 127 devices, up to seven > tiers, including the

Re: [opensc-devel] Managing devices simultaneously

2012-03-21 Thread Szabó Áron
Thanks for your answers! In my case 1 smart card, USB token would use/store just 1 slot/1 keypair: 1 keypair is needed for each user stored on separate devices. This means, I have to maximize the number of devices, not the slots of the devices. USB controller gives an upper limitation for that,

Re: [opensc-devel] Managing devices simultaneously

2012-03-21 Thread Andreas Kroehnert
Hi Aron, not sure whether its worthwhile to mention: I know of a large trustcenter offering certificates for qualified signatures, that uses hundreds of serial port smartcard readers connected to a single system using RS232 multiplexers. But I dont know which software they use. However, do y

Re: [opensc-devel] Managing devices simultaneously

2012-03-21 Thread Szabó Áron
Hi Andreas, > “I know of a large trustcenter offering certificates for qualified signatures” Our aims are very similar to this! First, we also wanted to use HSMs to store keypairs (we already have Thales netHSM for PKI functions, and a Thales payment HSM), but independent auditors told us, that

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 09:21 -0500, Douglas E. Engert a écrit : > Before we incorporate, I have a few questions and comments: > What other open source projects have uses this French loi law? > Has this helped or hindered their project? Video Lan for example, the editor of VLC: http://www.

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > Unless you agree that by writing on the mailing list, we are going > to incorporate an association. Jean-Michel, as I've said already, please stop the noise and go fork if that is what you want! I promise I'll stay far away. //Peter pgprOilbqPvTj.pgp Descript

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 22:19 +0100, Peter Stuge a écrit : > Jean-Michel, as I've said already, please stop the noise and go fork > if that is what you want! I promise I'll stay far away. We don't want to fork, this would be stupid. Viktor and Alon wrote interesting text, I don't want to add a

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > I will try again. Thanks! It really helps! > > > The bureaucracy and lack of flexibility will inhibit contributions > > > and healthy *SMALL* community. > > > > What bureaucracy do you mean? Requiring no build failure and review > > in gerrit? I think those are acceptable r

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > > Jean-Michel, as I've said already, please stop the noise and go fork > > if that is what you want! I promise I'll stay far away. > > We don't want to fork, this would be stupid. Please understand that whatever you try to organize democratically will indeed be

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 23:04 +0100, Peter Stuge a écrit : > Please understand that whatever you try to organize democratically > will indeed be a fork. Open source is not democracy. Peter, you are shooting yourself a bullet in the foot. As written before, some people really believe to own O

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 23:03 +0100, Peter Stuge a écrit : > Thanks for taking the time! It really helped understand what you > mean! Peter, what I read in your previous post, you seem to be too picky. IMHO, quality is a circle: you write code, ask for review, commit a first version, ask for

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > > Please understand that whatever you try to organize democratically > > will indeed be a fork. Open source is not democracy. > > Peter, you are shooting yourself a bullet in the foot. This isn't about me. > As written before, some people really believe to o

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC and gerrit

2012-03-21 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Le mercredi 21 mars 2012 à 23:54 +0100, Peter Stuge a écrit : > I find that quite offensive. Why don't you focus on the code? At present I focus on building a farm compiling packages. 10 days x 10 hours a day to set-up the hardware and software and this is far from complete. I admit to use sarcas