Martin Paljak wrote: <snip> > I would still use an actual crypto IC for key operations,
If you need multiple MCUs the scheme will be costly. I think there is plenty of "lebensraum" between passwords written down on Post-It notes and EAL5++ certified eID cards. Here is a candidate for the "wündercard": http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card_v2.asp?part_id=4707 In addition, crypto IC have a horrible low capacity even when married with gigabytes of FLASH since the existing crypto IC vendors haven't managed to connect these worlds. > just (maybe) forget emulating CCID on the host side and instead > of providing several host side drivers (one for USB access to > please PC/SC, one for crypto operations on top of PC/SC) just provide a > portable > PKCS#11 library which talks directly to the USB device. There is no such thing as talking directly to USB if you want your stuff to run in an ordinary computer which was the reason I started this thread. anders _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
