Saturday, January 2, 2016

Happy new year 2016

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Dear readers, I wish you a happy new year for 2016. In 2015 I published 51 articles on this blog. I do plan to continue writing about my...
Friday, December 25, 2015

New version of pcsc-lite: 1.8.15

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I just released a new version of pcsc-lite 1.8.15 . pcsc-lite is a Free Software implementation of the PC/SC (or WinSCard) API for Unix sy...

Apple PC/SC: blog articles about missing features

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You may have noticed that I wrote 3 blog articles about missing features in the PC/SC layer from Apple. SCardGetStatusChange() and number ...

OS X El Capitan missing feature: add support of TAG_IFD_POLLING_THREAD_WITH_TIMEOUT

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This is part of the series: " OS X El Capitan and smart cards: known bugs ". This is not a bug since this feature was never pres...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Remove and/or customize PC/SC reader names

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The need In some cases you need to control the smart card reader names reported by PC/SC. For real examples see some requests sent on th...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

OS X El Capitan missing feature: SCardGetStatusChange() and "\\?PnP?\Notification"

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This is part of the series: " OS X El Capitan and smart cards: known bugs ". SCardGetStatusChange() does not support "\\?P...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

OS X El Capitan missing feature: SCardGetStatusChange() and number of card events

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This is part of the series: " OS X El Capitan and smart cards: known bugs ". SCardGetStatusChange() and number of card events ...