Hi Børge, Børge Holen: > Ludovic Rousseau said that? > As I understood it he deal with supported, supposed to work and unupported > list. > I see no reason why a couple of lines could not go in the same bunk as my > own cherry tc1300 lines....
> > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Stephan Beck <sb...@secure.mailbox.org> > wrote: > >> Stephan Beck: >>> Hi Børge, >>> >>> Børge Holen: >>>> On 18 Oct 2016 16:19, "Stephan Beck" <sb...@secure.mailbox.org> wrote: >>> >>>>> The only question then is why are the Nitrokey USB crypto sticks not >>>>> included in libbcid's Info.pList file? They showed up on the scene >> years >>>>> ago. >>>>> >>>>> But maybe that's a question that should be directed to the package >>>>> maintainer or "upstream" directly. >>>>> >>> >>>> >>>> I had the creator of the libccid add a smartcard reader a couple of >> years >>>> ago. Took a week or so before it landed in debians reposatories. >> Painfree >>>> process. I to added it manually before that. A cherry card reader if im >> not >>>> mistaken... >>> >>> Ah, I didn't know that it's that easy. Thanks for your info. I think >>> I'll give it a try. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Stephan >> >> Well, Børge, it seems that I wasn't as lucky as you. I asked upstream to >> have Nitrokey included but he says that payment is needed for an >> inclusion in the list of supported readers, as this inclusion requires >> to pass a test suite that he has set up, and he does not do that for >> free (a very respectable decision). >> I deduce from that, that (even in your case) it have to be the >> makers/suppliers who have to be sufficiently interested in having their >> devices included in the list, i.e. interested to an extent that they pay >> for the required tests to be performed. >> >> Cheers >> >> Stephan Ludovic Rousseau IS the (main) author/developer of ccid/libccid driver package (1,2,3) - based partially on existing software of two other developers - the maintainer of Debian's libccid package and contributes to many other smart card driver related packages/projects, really impressive. He wrote that in order to have the Nitrokey tokens (or any other) included in the list of supported readers, he has to charge a fee, because the setting-up and performing of the tests is time-intensive (and I think that this is a legitimate reason). Aren't the list of supported readers and the content of the Info.plist file (<VendorID> <FriendlyName>) basically the same thing? That's what I thought. I received an email from him (well, excluding the possibility of a faked mail) in reply to a request I made. But, certainly I am not allowed to simply publish it on the list without his consent. Cheers Stephan (1) https://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html (2) https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/pcsclite/CCID.git (3) https://www.openhub.net/accounts/LudovicRousseau (4) https://www.openhub.net/p/libccid
