Ventura (macOS 13.0) is now available since October, 2022.
I will compare this version to the previous one in Monterey I presented in macOS Monterey and smart cards status.
CCID
$ grep -A 1 CFBundleShortVersionString /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/Info.plist
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.5.0</string>
The CCID driver has been upgraded from version 1.4.34 as in Monterey to
version 1.5.0.
Apple Open Source
The Open Source components included in macOS are listed at
https://opensource.apple.com/releases/
In addition to a
.tar.gz archive, the source code is also available in a
github (acquired by
Microsoft in 2018) repository at
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/SmartcardCCID.
It is then easy to see the
patches
applied by Apple to the CCID driver:
But the patches have no documentation on the why the patches
are needed.
The only obvious patch is
ccid-info-plist.patch
that changes the value of Info.plist configuration file from 3 (CRITICAL + INFO) to 1
(CRITICAL) in order to generate less logs.
ifdLogLevel from
It is also easy to compare two versions. For example the differences between
the version for Monterey and the version for Ventura is available as a
github diff
between tags SmartcardCCID-55028 and SmartcardCCID-55031.
Crypto Token Kit
Nothing special to say. The source code of this part is not available.
My Objective-C sample
"PC/SC" sample in Objective-C (synchronous)
still builds and works fine.
Security message on first connection
On the first connection of my USB smart card reader I got this dialogue
box:
As expected, I do not get the dialogue box again after I selected "Allow".
Conclusion
No big changes in Ventura for the smart card world.
