Re: [opensc-devel] ANN/RFC: SmartCardWebApplet

2010-06-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
Martin Paljak wrote: > > What is "BSI/ISO Web Service stack for smart cards" ? > Does it have something to do with the new JavaCard 3? Since ISO standards have to be *paid for* (what were they smoking when they took that decisions) I don't have the specifics but the German ecard build on thi

Re: [opensc-devel] ANN/RFC: SmartCardWebApplet

2010-06-30 Thread Martin Paljak
Hello, On Jul 1, 2010, at 08:32 , Anders Rundgren wrote: > I think Martin's approach is quite reasonable since it has a good chance > working with existing cards, browsers and PCs. That would be the the goal, yes. > One thing which I must confess I understand nothing of is that it seems > that ev

Re: [opensc-devel] ANN/RFC: SmartCardWebApplet

2010-06-30 Thread Martin Paljak
Hello, On Jul 1, 2010, at 02:26 , Peter Stuge wrote: > Martin Paljak wrote: >> SmartCardWebApplet > It is awesome that you are putting so much effort into getting smart > cards "to the web", but I'm afraid I personally think that a Java > approach is an enormous mistake. There are three different

Re: [opensc-devel] ANN/RFC: SmartCardWebApplet

2010-06-30 Thread Anders Rundgren
Peter, I think Martin's approach is quite reasonable since it has a good chance working with existing cards, browsers and PCs. If you (like me) want to push the envelope a bit further and leaving the legacy of 7816, File systems, ASN.1, PKCS #15, PC/SC, serial interfaces, stuffed in electronics t

Re: [opensc-devel] ANN/RFC: SmartCardWebApplet

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Stuge
Martin Paljak wrote: > SmartCardWebApplet It is awesome that you are putting so much effort into getting smart cards "to the web", but I'm afraid I personally think that a Java approach is an enormous mistake. I can not accept that a 1x1 pixel object would be a central part of a security system t

[opensc-devel] ANN/RFC: SmartCardWebApplet

2010-06-29 Thread Martin Paljak
Hello, I would like to announce the birth of a new project (or resurrection of an old project, opensc-java [0]) named SmartCardWebApplet [1]. OpenSC currently is geared towards C and "native" applications, by providing C based "native" interfaces (PKCS#11, Tokend, possibly Windows minidriver) a