Hello, On Sep 18, 2011, at 12:17 , Anders Rundgren wrote: > It seems that there are big hopes associated with Microsoft's MiniDriver. >From where?
> I don't understand why because it is poorly documented, has zero > standards status, and has AFAIK only been implemented in Windows. And will only be implemented on MS platforms. It is a vendor mechanism and will remain one, IMHO. > Another issue is that I don't see how the MiniDriver provisioning model > could be transferred to mobile phones since the concept of shared > secrets for card management assumes that there is a relation between > the card and the issuer which doesn't scale particularly well. > > Why is this even important you may wonder? Because "Virtual Smart > Cards" using embedded security HW is already a feature in Windows 8: > > http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/HW-462T Interesting, will watch. But I'm still no believer for the TC/TPM field, in consumer products (like Windows, maybe for Apple ;)) -- @MartinPaljak.net +3725156495 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
