Re: OpenSC onepin
Jakub Jelen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.opensc.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10/04/2016 03:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi! > > If I'm not mistaken, we are not exposing a virtual hotplug slot to the > application anymore. Yes, you are right. The master does not show this one. But as far as I understand to this problem is not in the virtual hotplug, but in the PINs of the card creating the virtual slots, isn't it? > 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? It was internal/offline discussion, mostly theoretical (based on the mails, comments and issues), because I don't have any cards exposing more PINs in this way and that would make a difference of the both libraries to test. From the discussion, what we would like to avoid is to have two (basically same) libraries in the OS for several reasons (p11-kit, ...). The inception to make the other symlink came in the mailing list more than two years ago [1] without any follow up. The pursuing the solution without virtual slots (single PIN) sounds reasonable for most of the cards. But still I might miss some part of the current behavior so correct me if I am wrong. [1] http://opensc.1086184.n5.nabble.com/opensc-onepin-td14433.html Regards, -- Jakub Jelen Security Technologies Red Hat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot