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Monday, January 30, 2012

10 years as a Debian Developer

In September 2001 I became a Debian Developer. I do not remember the exact date.

October 2001

Of course my first Debian package upload was related to smart card. It is the first upload of the ifd-gempc package:

ifd-gempc (0.5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
   * Initial Release.
   * close ITP (Closes: #117441)
   * add debconf scripts for gempc410
 -- Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:16:54 +0100

June 2002

Not too much later (June 2002) I became the Debian maintainer for pcsc-lite:

pcsc-lite (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
   * New upstream release (Closes: #150994)
   * New maintainer. Thanks Carlos for your job
   * Use init.d level 50 to start _after_ usbmgr with level 45.
     see the note in /usr/share/doc/pcscd/README.Debian (Closes: #146151)
   * update pcscd(1) manpage
 -- Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:52:27 +0200

Now

Since then I maintain some more smart card related Debian packages, also available in Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives.

I try to maintain a list of smart card related packages inside Debian.

Maybe I will still maintain smart card packages in 10 years :-)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

New version of pcsc-lite: 1.8.2


I just released a new version of pcsc-lite 1.8.2. No big changes except for pcsc-spy I talked about in a previous article "PCSC API spy, third try".

Changelog:
pcsc-lite-1.8.2: Ludovic Rousseau
18 January 2012
  • rename pcsc-spy.py to pcsc-spy and install it as a normal binary (in /usr/local/bin by default)
  • write a pcsc-spy.1 manpage
  • fix a bug with a multi-slot reader
  • Info.plist parser: avoid a buffer read overflow in &amp; management
  • Some Doxygen improvements
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Friday, January 6, 2012

OpenSC mailing list statistics for 2011

After the MUSCLE mailing list statistics for 2011 I also did the operation for two OpenSC mailing lists. The opensc-users list has been merged in the opensc-devel mailing list in August 2011. So the statistics presented here represent the sum of both lists.

Comments

Top poster

I am also the top poster on the OpenSC mailing list. I am surprised by this result. Maybe because many questions are related to PCSC?

Number of messages

This list has 3.2 times more messages than the MUSCLE mailing list. I can propose different explanations for that:

  • the MUSCLE project is more mature than OpenSC
  • bugs/issues are reported on the OpenSC mailing list because that is what users use even if the problem is in PCSC or libccid
  • pcsc-lite and libccid are easy to use. No configuration is needed (no more serial port to select) and the same driver (libccid) now can be used by any modern USB reader (no more a specific driver per reader)
  • PKCS#11 use is developing because citizen cards are deployed in "many" countries
  • Problems are more complex to track in OpenSC so more emails are needed to solve them
  • many other reasons

1 person, 2 emails

Some people (like Viktor Tarasov) use 2 different email on the list. So his rank is not correct. I don't think that is a real problem.

Cross posts

From the top 30 threads, 7 threads are cross posted to the MUSCLE list. From the MUSCLE statistics only 1 of the 30 top threads is a cross post.
I don't know how to interpret this result.



Statistics from 1.1.2011 to 31.12.2011
for OpenSC lists


People who have written most messages:

 Author  Msg  Percent 
1ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com43513.53 %
2martin@martinpaljak.net43113.41 %
3jmpoure@gooze.eu2648.21 %
4deengert@anl.gov2036.32 %
5viktor.tarasov@opentrust.com1504.67 %
6viktor.tarasov@gmail.com922.86 %
7andre.zepezauer@student.uni-halle.de822.55 %
8ndk.clanbo@gmail.com772.40 %
9alon.barlev@gmail.com732.27 %
10peter@stuge.se652.02 %
11morgner@informatik.hu-berlin.de461.43 %
12aj@dungeon.inka.de451.40 %
13anders.rundgren@telia.com381.18 %
14jonsito@terra.es341.06 %
15development@aventra.fi341.06 %
16stefw@collabora.co.uk270.84 %
17helpcrypto@gmail.com260.81 %
18Johannes.Becker@hrz.uni-giessen.de220.68 %
19mr.dash.four@googlemail.com210.65 %
20JONSITO@terra.es210.65 %
21squalyl@gmail.com200.62 %
22aquamaniac@gmx.de200.62 %
23B.Thomas@astronautics.com200.62 %
24kalev@smartlink.ee190.59 %
25peter@adpm.de190.59 %
26ruckuus@gmail.com180.56 %
27wrosenauer@gmail.com180.56 %
28William.HOURY@atosorigin.com180.56 %
29kalevlember@gmail.com170.53 %
30mstjohns@comcast.net160.50 %
other84326.23 %

Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):

 Author  KBytes 
1alon.barlev@gmail.com1538.0
2jmpoure@gooze.eu615.8
3martin@martinpaljak.net560.2
4deengert@anl.gov436.3
5William.HOURY@atosorigin.com398.0
6ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com338.1
7viktor.tarasov@opentrust.com273.2
8hardik.shah@jetmobile.com261.2
9development@aventra.fi249.7
10viktor.tarasov@gmail.com160.2
11andre.zepezauer@student.uni-halle.de157.1
12peter@adpm.de143.0
13jonsito@terra.es136.4
14lk@tms.pl129.8
15ndk.clanbo@gmail.com115.5
16morgner@informatik.hu-berlin.de112.2
17lyall.pearce@hp.com109.7
18business@reebs.org103.7
19kgo@grant-olson.net97.8
20B.Thomas@astronautics.com97.0
21fmb@inf.ufsc.br96.7
22kalev@smartlink.ee85.7
23marc_m@gmx.at83.4
24lyall.pearce@gmail.com83.1
25helpcrypto@gmail.com78.9
26ruckuus@gmail.com78.8
27JONSITO@terra.es78.2
28Alexei.Soloview@intech.natm.ru76.6
29stefw@collabora.co.uk71.9
30mhayk@m2smart.com.br69.4

Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):

 Author  bytes 
1mgfranco@gmail.com33252
2hardik.shah@jetmobile.com29719
3lyall.pearce@hp.com28091
4felixcodeboy@gmail.com26476
5William.HOURY@atosorigin.com22642
6thorsten.engel@matrix-computer.com21641
7alon.barlev@gmail.com21574
8lyall.pearce@gmail.com21277
9wiking@maeth.com20496
10lk@tms.pl18989
11SERGE.GADIOUX@atosorigin.com18307
12Jonatan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C5kerlind?=15755
13marc_m@gmx.at14239
14dom_fischer@web.de13490
15joel.hockey@gmail.com11705
16mescheryakov@rutoken.ru11521
17bendrich@dfn-cert.de11001
18kiefer@flexsecure.de10379
19rolf.wald@lug-balista.de10293
20rrelyea@redhat.com10203
21fgoulart@fmagj.com.br9974
22gblanc@linagora.com9662
23business@reebs.org9654
24mariano.benedettini@qmas.com8632
25benallemand@gmail.com8553
26detlef.graef@yahoo.de8402
27mike@sentex.net8240
28marte@compunet.it8219
29iuridiniz@gmail.com8151
30brenojac@gmail.com7984

Table showing the most successful subjects:

 Subject  Msg  Percent 
1[opensc-devel] sc_ctx_detect_readers patch491.52 %
2[Muscle] Access to multiple contactless cards using PCSC-Lite361.12 %
3[opensc-devel] How to make proper use of sc_card_cache341.06 %
4[opensc-user] Newbie help310.96 %
5[Muscle] PCSC Daemon cannot access Cyberjack reader300.93 %
6[Muscle] PC/SC workgroup, November 2011 meeting300.93 %
7[opensc-devel] Multiple certs on a MyEID card?300.93 %
8[opensc-devel] First Smartcard logon issue on XP SP3 with300.93 %
9[opensc-user] /usr/bin/pkcs15-tool -c failed ..290.90 %
10[opensc-devel] Cardmod: classic form for the container's ID290.90 %
11[opensc-devel] Moving master forward280.87 %
12[opensc-devel] Problem with CardMan4040 and OpenSC270.84 %
13[Muscle] GlobalPlatform Library & GPShell documentation now online260.81 %
14[Muscle] PCSCD got segmentation fault on ARM v5 with uClibc260.81 %
15[opensc-devel] Consistence between the OpenSC and proprietary250.78 %
16[opensc-devel] Feitian PKI speed240.75 %
17[opensc-devel] Status of PINPAD support in OpenSC / libccid240.75 %
18[opensc-devel] Proposed cardmod patch230.72 %
19[opensc-devel] OpenSC shared mode230.72 %
20[opensc-devel] usb p11 token220.68 %
21[opensc-devel] --insecure ?210.65 %
22[opensc-devel] Status installing and using opensc + minidriver210.65 %
23[opensc-devel] Java and pkcs11210.65 %
24[Muscle] Woxter SmartCard reader200.62 %
25[opensc-user] Is ePass2000-FT12 supported?200.62 %
26[opensc-devel] Gnome smartcard manager200.62 %
27[opensc-devel] pkcs15-tool --list-public-keys200.62 %
28[opensc-devel] Static link for opensc-pkcs11.dll190.59 %
29[opensc-devel] Problems with opensc+openvpn builds from Alon190.59 %
30[Muscle] Speed detection patch when reader has no baud rates180.56 %
other243975.89 %

Most used email clients:

 Mailer  Msg  Percent 
1(unknown)124038.58 %
2Mozilla/5.x89027.69 %
3KMail1524.73 %
4Apple Mail (2.1082)1394.32 %
5Apple Mail (2.1084)1263.92 %
6Evolution 2.32.3 882.74 %
7Evolution 2.30.3 812.52 %
8Evolution 2.22.3.1802.49 %
9Evolution 2.32.2 742.30 %
10Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0521.62 %
11Evolution 2.32.2 (2.32.2-1.fc14) 240.75 %
12Apple Mail (2.1244.3)200.62 %
13QUALCOMM Windows Eudora160.50 %
14Lotus Notes Release 8.0150.47 %
15Evolution 3.0.2- 140.44 %
16Evolution 3.0.3-2 130.40 %
17RoundCube Webmail/0.4110.34 %
18Apple Mail (2.936)100.31 %
19Evolution 2.30.3 (2.30.3-1.fc13) 100.31 %
20Mutt100.31 %
21Apple Mail (2.1078)90.28 %
22git-send-email 1.7.5.480.25 %
23Lotus Notes Release 8.570.22 %
24Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)60.19 %
25Zarafa 6.40.5-2486060.19 %
26Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23)50.16 %
27git-send-email 1.7.3.450.16 %
28Evolution 3.0.3-3 50.16 %
29YahooMailWebService/0.8.113.31361940.12 %
30Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)40.12 %
other902.80 %

Table of maximal quoting:

 Author  Percent 
1karlssoj@arcada.fi98.17 %
2menezes.gabryella@gmail.com90.35 %
3jesus.guerrero.botella@gmail.com81.57 %
4janjust@nikhef.nl79.62 %
5extramrdo@gmail.com75.88 %
6fabeisageek@googlemail.com73.39 %
7david.mattes@boeing.com73.17 %
8s.ferey@wanadoo.fr72.48 %
9andreas.schwier.ml@cardcontact.de72.35 %
10sebastien@lorquet.fr71.47 %
11lionel@mamane.lu68.69 %
12michaelbender@me.com64.76 %
13fundu_1999@yahoo.com63.71 %
14richter@ecos.de62.73 %
15etthom0@gmail.com62.19 %
16edward.middleton@vortorus.net59.70 %
17andreas.schwier@cardcontact.de58.79 %
18resoli@libero.it55.63 %
19peter.ordonez@gmail.com55.37 %
20widerstand@t-online.de54.61 %
21francois.leblanc@cev-sa.com54.28 %
22bjoernk2@googlemail.com53.67 %
23nmav@gnutls.org52.51 %
24opensc@secure-edge.com50.88 %
25weitao@ftsafe.com50.48 %
26tomasg@primekey.se50.10 %
27ffred69@gmail.com50.08 %
28vladimir.davydov@promwad.com49.51 %
29weizhongqiang@gmail.com49.37 %
30Jean-Pierre.Szikora@uclouvain.be48.86 %
average21.77 %

Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:

msgs64
|		24
|		18
|		15
|		10
|		7
|		12
|		39
|		110
|		241
|		275
|		258
|		186
|		249
|		233
|		258
|		236
|		173
|		171
|		141
|		118
|		118
|		148
|		110
|
hour 01234567891011121314151617181920212223

Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:

msgs72
|		50
|		112
|		126
|		114
|		101
|		108
|		177
|		122
|		120
|		108
|		115
|		122
|		127
|		74
|		98
|		74
|		98
|		94
|		102
|		107
|		106
|		74
|		72
|		165
|		147
|		89
|		110
|		92
|		72
|		66
|
day 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031

Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:

msgs431
|		568
|		521
|		572
|		626
|		260
|		236
|

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun


Maximal quoting:

Author : alon.barlev@gmail.com
Subject : [opensc-devel] Problems with opensc+openvpn builds from Alon
Date : Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:40:00 +0300
Quote ratio: 98.91% / 22784 bytes

Longest message:

Author : alon.barlev@gmail.com
Subject : [opensc-devel] Problems with opensc+openvpn builds from Alon
Date : Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:45:31 +0300
Size : 1402547 bytes

Most successful subject:

Subject : [opensc-devel] sc_ctx_detect_readers patch
No. of msgs: 49
Total size : 191734 bytes

Final summary:

Total number of messages: 3214
Total number of different authors: 241
Total number of different subjects: 687
Total size of messages (w/o headers): 12199358 bytes
Average size of a message: 3795 bytes

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