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November 2013

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New CCID smart card readers support
by Giuseppe Amato 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Hello, with the introduction of the CCID driver package from the pcsc-lite project in OSX 10.5 the number of reader supported by OSX out-of-the-box has increased, since the new driver is more standard. But something has become worst: a list of VIDs/PIDs explicitly supported was introduced instead of using the "0x0b" CCID interface class to detect a CCID reader. Actually Apple didn't update anymore pcscd nor ccid ifd, so after many years OSX does not supports out-of-the-box many CCID readers, just very old models. I think that if Apple will in the future update that components in the official release of OSX the starting codebase should be the Smart Card Services project, so it make sense to me continuing to update and enhance it. My proposal is to get back the code from the old pcscd version, reintroducing the previous behavior: if there isn't a bundle explicitly supporting a VID/PID and the device supports "0x0b" class then pcscd loads the ifd-ccid.bundle as default driver. That avoids the need to continuously update the list of supported VIDs and PIDs. What do you think? -- Giuseppe Amato http://www.bit4id.com gam(a)bit4id.com

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