Martin Paljak wrote: > On Mar 25, 2010, at 21:32 , Douglas E. Engert wrote: >> I realize that OpenSC does not a lot of Windows experts, what it does have >> is a lot of Unix experts that try and do everything from Unix. But we do >> have some windows expertise, as shown by the development of a CSP. > I don't know what is the required level to be named an expert, it seems that > most people don't use Windows daily. And we don't have the infrastructure to > run similar nightly stuff on Windows as currently is running on Linux. >
I am not trying to offend anyone, and I agree that we (OpenSC) does not have the resources. >> As I have said before, if OpenSC wants the general Windows community to >> accept OpenSC as secure and stable, we need to solve many of these issues >> and building on Windows using Microsoft compilers and linkers is one step >> toward creating that trust. > "General Windows community" can mean many things. For "end users" it does > not matter as long as the stuff he/she installs works, for windows developers > it probably matters. > > I'm personally pro-platform specific tools, that's why I'm pro-cmake (or > whatever makes building on Windows with native tools an almost enjoyable > process) > Something that takes into account that most active developers use *nix must > be implemented. I also agree with you on this. > > > >> Fortunately for windows user, (but not for OpenSC developers) Windows smart >> card drivers are available from most vendors. Microsoft provides in Windows >> 7 a built in driver for the PIV card that I am most interested in. >> But there is still no PKCS#11 to CryptoAPI for use with Mozilla (I did see a >> thread from 2007 with Alon's response.) > > It was just recently discussed again on mozilla-dev-tech-crypto: > http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/19facdd44bbb399d/f1ae3313c20cd9db?#f1ae3313c20cd9db > I see. Google did not find that note. But It did find the source below, but its not yet in firefox 3.6 or thurnderbird 3.0.3 > http://mxr.mozilla.org/security/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/capi/ > -- Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov> Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Illinois 60439 (630) 252-5444 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
