<div dir="ltr">I can't respond to Dr. Rousseau directly for list subscription reasons, so sorry about screwing up the thread a bit.<div><br></div><div>I would be impressed if "gpg2 --card-status" didn't just hang. I understand that GPG has its own card server program and wants exclusive access to the Yubikey. GPG2 works on RARE occasion and I can't figure out the why's and when's even though I've tried.</div><div><br></div><div>But from reading various looks at Apple's current smartcard service, it seems like it doesn't get a lot of love. I assume that Apple hasn't really dedicated a significant number of engineers to this. And from reading your blog, Dr. Rousseau, it doesn't feel like you believe in Apple's roadmap, at least from the parts that are visible.</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Chris Inacio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nacho319@gmail.com" target="_blank">nacho319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Second question: would people even want that?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Chris Inacio</div><div><br></div></div>
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