Re: RES: RES: Parallel Process with readers - pcsc-lite
Frank Marien <[email protected]>
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On 07/05/13 14:04, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > 2013/7/5 Michael Traut <[email protected]>: >> We already have a platform independent native adapter to pcsc and pcsc-lite. >> We developed this before smartcardio popped up and never switched because of >> the limitations of smartcardio - it is used in our (closed-source) EAL >> certified signature application. >> >> We'd like to donate this lib if anybody is interested... >> >> The runtime stack consists of >> >> - JNA runtime >> - intarsys native memory model (as we dislike the JNA abstractions...). This >> is already BSD licensed (via jPod on SourceForge) >> - intarsys PCSC wrapper (including all SCARD features WE needed so far) >> - intarsys Card abstraction. A small layer on top of PCSC, with some >> features we found very useful in the years. >> >> The pro is without doubt that we use this for years, fixed small "bugs" with >> every version of win*, 32 and 64 bit, Mac and Unix derivates, for every card >> reader explicitly supported and poorly programmed by the provider... There >> have been so many incompatibilities to work around we simply can't list... >> >> For some, the downside may be that we do NOT plug in smartcardio and have >> different abstraction for terminal/card/connection. The "card" abstraction >> (while not required, but really recommended) is quite strict and on the >> exact opposite of smartcardio. Every card terminal and every card connection >> comes with its own context... >> >> If appropriate, make some suggestions on where to host the lib.... > Great! > > I would propose to host the lib at github.com, unless your are more > familiar with another system. > > Or if the library has a really low activity we could host it in the > contrib/ directory of the pcsc-lite project at > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pcsclite/trunk/contrib/ > > The real question is: do you propose yourself as the project leader/maintainer? > > Bye, > > -- > Dr. Ludovic Rousseau > > _______________________________________________ > Muscle mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle_lists.musclecard.com > Second that "Great!" from Dr Ludovic. I've been looking into implementing this and I figure it has taken a lot of work to get and keep working right. It would save others a lot of work if you would share that. de.intersys.opensource['karma']++ :-)