Martin Paljak wrote:
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> 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
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