On 2011-11-26 09:45, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Hello Douglas and Anders, > > 2011/11/25 Douglas E. Engert <deeng...@anl.gov>: >> On 11/24/2011 4:02 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >>> Hi Ludovic, >>> >>> You are a true smart card middleware expert. >>> I'm not and my customers are even less of that. >>> They just want to plug in and go. >>> >>> As it appears the smart card community/industry have created >>> uniquely complex middleware for reasons unclear to me. >> >> I never could understand it, either. > > What do you think is complex in the PC/SC API? > What would you like to change?
I know very little about PC/SC; I'm just puzzled by the lack of interoperability that seems to be at hand. > > Maybe I can propose something missing to the PC/SC workgroup. But it > may takes years to be accepted :-) The Google Wallet will change the way smart cards are used in PCs. Neither PC/SC, 7816 or PKCS #11 will be on the menu when the eID sits inside of your phone. I really wonder who will design this interface; an SDO or Google? I can't imagine Google, Apple and Microsoft agree on anything in this space so it will likely be a truly "Darwinian" thing. Anders > > Regards, > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
