On 2011-09-18 11:57, Martin Paljak wrote: > 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? Windows has 90% of the enterprise desktop market. Microsoft's recommendation is to use MiniDriver-based cards. > >> 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. I think that is correct. >> 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 ;)) Well the problem is that the alternatives suck big time. SIMs are owned by the operators and SD-cards with PKI only support a single issuer since they do not offer a scalable on-line provisioning solution. Anders _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
