Re: MUSCLE PC/SC not concurrent??

[David Corcoran]

Hi,

The IEEE is correct.  Currently PC/SC does not provide card abstraction
that allows the use of Multi-application cards.  It provides a generic
interface that allows the manufacturer to implement their own proprietary
class to do multi-applications on cards.  Supposedly PC/SC 2.0 will fix
this.

PC/SC does allow multiple applications to access the same device
simultaneously though.  The above paragraph discusses multi-application
cards and this one discusses multiple applications running on the machine
accessing the card simultaneously.  The PC/SC full version using CORBA
allowed multiple applications to access the card/reader simultaneously.
PC/SC lite does not currently but will soon ( within 1 month using RPC to
lighten it up a bit - and if I get time I might also release one that uses
shared memory to lighten it up even more )  I think the confusion is
between multiple applications on the machine which does work and multiple
applications on the card which doesn't work.

Hope this clears it up.

Best Regards,
Dave

David Corcoran
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West Lafayette, IN 47906


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MUSCLE PC/SC not concurrent??

[Rolce Axilaris]

hi all

In a recent publication in Concurrent IEEE journal,
there was a small write up about opencard and pc/sc.
It seems that pc/sc as they have understand is does
not support concurrent access or support for
multiapplication smart card. 

After some browse through the pc/sc documentation some
time ago, i think i came across somewhere that the
resource manager does support multiapplication access
to the smartcard.

axil

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