Re: Partnership Seahorse / OpenSC projects on smartcard support

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

On 2010-07-01 04:45, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote:
> 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. 

Very cool. Are you representing the OpenSC project in some way. Or are
you a third party?

It's very likely that this support would be implemented in
gnome-keyring. Seahorse is the GUI key manager, and gnome-keyring is
GNOME's underlying key and password storage implementation.

> 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.

Yes, I responded about this separately. But again, such smart cards
and/or readers would be a massive boon to the project.

> 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?

We're going to be meeting at GUADEC (in a week or so) to discuss more
about this. As Pablo said, we'll be in a much more solid position to
discuss our development outline at that point.

But smart card support is something we certainly want to implement, and
much of gnome-keyring has been built with that in mind, with copious use
of standards such as PKCS#11.

Cheers,

Stef