Hi Arshad,
Arshad Noor wrote:
Two questions:
1) What is the difference between the commercial version of the software
vs. OpenSC version?
The commercial version is closed source and we have no clue about it
really. OpenSC's version was developed by reverse engineering the
Siemens CardOS, in addition to the fact, that OpenSC implements pccs15
and only emulates pkcs11. For more details I suggest to join the OpenSC
mailing list.
2) Why can they both not access the same objects (private keys and certs)
if the objects are stored in industry-standard formats?
No, they are not stored in the same way. The Siemens CardOS is really
proprietary. However the nice thing is, that there is software for all
platforms both closed and open source, plus both can live on the same
token/smart card.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)" <eddy...@startcom.org>
Cc: dev-...@lists.mozilla.org
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:20:57 PM (GMT-0800) America/Los_Angeles
Subject: Re: Personal crypto device (or smart card) success stories?
I'd like to note, that the software provided by Aladdin works on
Windows, Linux and Mac. Similar the OpenSC software works on the same
three platforms, but the softwares of each are not compatible with each
other, which means, that both softwares can co-exist on the same
token/smartcard, but one can't read the others keys and certificates.
Hope I formulated that understandable enough.
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