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<div>If Apple releases the CryptoTokendKit API, there are indications that it may replace the need for PCSC:</div>
<div><a href="http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2014/11/os-x-yosemite-and-smart-cards-status.html">http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2014/11/os-x-yosemite-and-smart-cards-status.html</a></div>
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<div>Of course CyptoTokenKit doesn't help us if Apple does not provide the API documentation. No indication of what would replace CDSA/tokend though.</div>
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<div>-Ridley</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Chris Inacio <<a href="mailto:nacho319@gmail.com">nacho319@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, April 17, 2015 at 11:46 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:smartcardservices-dev@lists.macosforge.org">smartcardservices-dev@lists.macosforge.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:smartcardservices-dev@lists.macosforge.org">smartcardservices-dev@lists.macosforge.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[SmartcardServices-Dev] Effort to rebuild smartcard services on Mac from ground up<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello all,
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<div>I'm mostly a frustrated smartcard user at this point, but I play the role of developer (or development manager) in my day job. So I have a combination of Mac OS X 10.10, Centrify (with its smartcard additions), PIV/CAC type smart cards, a Yubikey NEO,
and would like it if GnuPG actually worked.</div>
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<div>Mostly, the CAC/PIV type smartcards actually work (I believe really related to the Centrify, but who knows, really…) but the YubiKey + GnuPG just do NOT work reliably (if at all.)</div>
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<div>Strangely, it seems like pcsctest can always find the card readers / devices attached to my machine reliably; but I do occasionally run into random bugs of things that simply don't work. And many of my colleagues with Mac's often have numerous problems
with smartcards operating correctly. (I personally have 3 smartcards, not including the Yubikey NEO.) In generally, various colleagues use some combination of: the opensource tokend updates, Centrify, and Thursby PKard. But all solutions seem to have bugs
/ issues filed with Apple.</div>
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<div>My question is, to someone who hopefully has thought about this a lot more than I have looked into it: how many man months would it be to start over? Take an up-to-date drop of PCSC from open source and do a new cleanroom port to Mac possibly?</div>
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<div>Second question: would people even want that?</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Chris Inacio</div>
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