Re: Partnership Seahorse / OpenSC projects on smartcard support

[Pablo Castellano <pablog ubuntu gmail com>]

On 01/07/10 11:45, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Some of you registered for a Free Feitian PKI card on Gooze:
> http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-pki-free-software-developer-card
>
> We now have access to very cheap token, which combine reader+smartcard:
> http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-epass-pki-token
>
> Using the token is absolutely equivalent to using a reader+smartcard. At
> Gooze, we provide plenty of HOWTOs which explain the use of smartcards
> with GNU/Linux.
>
> On the OpenSC mailing list, I proposed that a partnership between OpenSC
> and Seahorse could be a priority.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1. Do you need any additional free hardware to start integration of
> smarcards / OpenSC into Seahorse. We can ship you free smartcards and
> readers. The only limitation is that we only ship to the European Union.
>
> 2. Do you need developer help and in which fields? If you make a precise
> description, we can organize to help you.
>
> 3. Can we organize a phone meeting or an IRC chat to discuss about this
> with Seahorse developers and OpenSC developers?
>
> Kind regards,
> Jean-Michel Pouré

Hi Jean-Michel.

We will discuss about it in GUADEC [1]. After that, we will have the 
things clearer.

Thanks for your interest,
	Pablo.


[1] http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010/BOFs/DesktopCrypto