Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Northfield Stuart
On 10 Jun 2010, at 13:00, Emanuele Pucciarelli wrote: > What seems unlikely to me is mass storage encryption directly on the > device: I would guess that you need expensive hardware (at least, > expensive compared to ordinary smart cards) to perform decent > encryption at reasonable bitrates for

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Emanuele Pucciarelli
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 14:20, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > The advantage of using a HID interface instead of CCID is that, on > Windows, any user application can talk to a HID device without > installing a driver. > With a CCID interface and an old Windows (before Vista I think) you > have to insta

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Ludovic Rousseau
2010/6/10 Emanuele Pucciarelli : > Hello Jean-Michel, > >> Do you have any information on the work involved to add some HID >> protocol to OpenSC. Is HID protocol standard or would any solution be >> proprietary? > > Just trying to add my 2 cents: I am aware of tokens that expose a USB > hub with m

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Emanuele Pucciarelli
Hello Jean-Michel, > Do you have any information on the work involved to add some HID > protocol to OpenSC. Is HID protocol standard or would any solution be > proprietary? Just trying to add my 2 cents: I am aware of tokens that expose a USB hub with more than one device connected to it. Specifi

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Anders Rundgren
Hi J-M, Are you sure that this is correct? Why would a vendor use HID when there is a generally supported Mass Memory class? HID is used by some USB stick vendors but for entirely different purposes like generating OTPs. Mass memory <> Human interface device. Regards Anders Jean-Michel Pouré -

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 11:30 +0200, Anders Rundgren wrote: > Are you sure that this is correct? Of course, I am not sure, as I don't have the spec in front of me. Leave me some time to enquire. Bye. -- Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu _

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 11:47 +0300, Martin Paljak wrote: > Do you mean HID as http://www.hidglobal.com/ or HID as > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_device ? I mean Human interface device, the USB class. -- Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu

Re: [opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Martin Paljak
On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:42 , Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Per discussion with vendor, it seems that some token only support an HID > protocol. From a technical point of view, it allows to use the token as > an USB stick with 2GB to 8GB memory. This seems a nice idea, because

[opensc-devel] OpenSC support for HID token

2010-06-10 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE
Dear Friends, Per discussion with vendor, it seems that some token only support an HID protocol. From a technical point of view, it allows to use the token as an USB stick with 2GB to 8GB memory. This seems a nice idea, because it allows to format and encrypt the stick using the same device. When