Re: GNOME Keyring and Seahorse Goals and Vision

[Martin Paljak <martin martinpaljak net>]

On Oct 10, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote:

> Le samedi 09 octobre 2010 à 17:44 -0500, Stef Walter a écrit :
>> Please let me
>> know if I got something wrong, misrepresented or missed out on
>> something. 
> 
> Under "Smart card management", I would prefer "Smartcard / Crypto token
> management" title. Very few users understand that a crypto key is in
> fact a CCID reader with smartcard chip sealed.
The intended audience should know the similarity (or difference)

> I would suggest:
> 
> "OpenSC is the standard management framework, which can be used to test
> insertion, to erase and initialize smart cards and modify PIN/PUK codes.
> Gnome-Keyring aims to support fully standard hardware, with native
> OpenSC driver and CCID interface. Proprietary hardware with OpenCT
> interface is not supported."

From PKCS#11 perspective this makes no sense. OpenSC *implements* (or at least tries to) a few standards (PKCS#11, PKCS#15). Based on standards (PKCS#11) the interoperability is made possible. The library used below the PKCS#11 implementation should not concern keyring at all.

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