Re: RES: RES: Parallel Process with readers - pcsc-lite

Andreas Schwier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.muscle
Message-ID <[email protected]>
OCF also has a native PC/SC driver contributed by IBM.

The code is at http://www.openscdp.org/ocf/index.html

Andreas


On 07/05/2013 02:31 PM, Frank Marien wrote:
> 
> 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
>>
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> 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']++ :-)
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