Re: OpenSC onepin

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Hi!

If I'm not mistaken, we are not exposing a virtual hotplug slot to the
application anymore.  Slots are only created for actual readers, see
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/blob/master/src/pkcs11/slot.c#L142. I
reintroduced the virtual hotplug slot in
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/872, because NSS currently expects
that, once created, a slot never disappears.

Do you have a link to the one-pin-discussion?

Regards,
Frank.

On Tuesday, October 04 at 11:55AM, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> recently we discussed the usefulness of the onepin library and basically 
> came to conclusion that the onepin should be used by default. Most of 
> the cards have only one pin (if there is the second, it is most probably 
> not needed to be visible in the PKCS#11, since should be "signature 
> pin") and also the PKCS#11 specification is moving away from the mapping 
> of multiple pins to multiple PKCS#11 tokens (citation needed?).
> 
> The intention of this email is to start a discussion, if we still want 
> to have virtual slots by default. Mozilla is not going to expose the 
> "friendly bit" in UI [1], which would be possible workaround. But AFAIK, 
> we could make that default and for the other use cases create some 
> virtual-slots-opensc-pkcs11.so which would behave like the current default.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322145
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Jelen
> Security Technologies
> Red Hat
> 
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