Hello, I released pcsc-lite-0.6.2. It is probably the closest thing to PC/SC on Windows now. If you want to use pcsc and not use rpc or startup allocation I would suggest using version 0.5.5 until I am able to test 0.6.2 with all this. If you are using startup allocation (ie: the reader is tested when the daemon starts and polled for events ) then this is the release you want. I have added/changed the following: Pthreads for status polling. Rewrote svc_run function to check for dead clients periodically. Pthread mutexes for exclusion on readers. BeginTransaction blocks until transaction can be made. Library functions are determined at startup. RPC is not necessarily secure unless you are on an encrypted channel between the client and the server. I will be providing authentication measures so that the client must authenticate to the pcsc daemon in future releases. I have not yet tested it with all the readers but about 3 or 4 of them but ideally it should work. Please hammer on the daemon all you want. I have been running about 16 simultaneous processes on it and killing them randomly to see the results and it seems to be OK. Best Regards, Dave ************************************************************* David Corcoran Internet Security/Smartcards Home: Purdue University 1008 Cherry Lane Department of Computer Science West Lafayette, IN 47906 CERIAS/COAST Laboratory Home: (765) 463-0096 Cell: (317) 514-4797 http://www.linuxnet.com ************************************************************* *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************
