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Re: Inclusion of devices in the Info.plist of ccid [was]Re: Pardonnez-moi [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch removing Nitrokey Smartcard products?]

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Ludovic Rousseau said that?
As I understood it he deal with supported, supposed to work and unupported
list.
I see no reason why a couple of lines could not go in the same bunk as my
own cherry tc1300 lines....


On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org>
wrote:

> Stephan Beck:
> > Hi Børge,
> >
> > Børge Holen:
> >> On 18 Oct 2016 16:19, "Stephan Beck" <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> The only question then is why are the Nitrokey USB crypto sticks not
> >>> included in libbcid's Info.pList file? They showed up on the scene
> years
> >>> ago.
> >>>
> >>> But maybe that's a question that should be directed to the package
> >>> maintainer or "upstream" directly.
> >>>
> >
> >>
> >> I had the creator of the libccid add a smartcard reader a couple of
> years
> >> ago. Took a week or so before it landed in debians reposatories.
> Painfree
> >> process. I to added it manually before that. A cherry card reader if im
> not
> >> mistaken...
> >
> > Ah, I didn't know that it's that easy. Thanks for your info. I think
> > I'll give it a try.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Stephan
>
> Well, Børge, it seems that I wasn't as lucky as you. I asked upstream to
> have Nitrokey included but he says that payment is needed for an
> inclusion in the list of supported readers, as this inclusion requires
> to pass a test suite that he has set up, and he does not do that for
> free (a very respectable decision).
> I deduce from that, that (even in your case) it have to be the
> makers/suppliers who have to be sufficiently interested in having their
> devices included in the list, i.e. interested to an extent that they pay
> for the required tests to be performed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stephan
>

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libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch removing Nitrokey Smartcard  products? Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-10-18 09:50 +0200
  Pardonnez-moi [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch  removing Nitrokey Smartcard products?] Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-10-18 16:20 +0200
    Re: Pardonnez-moi [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch  removing Nitrokey Smartcard products?] Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com> - 2016-10-18 23:10 +0200
      Re: Pardonnez-moi [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch  removing Nitrokey Smartcard products?] Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-10-19 10:40 +0200
        Inclusion of devices in the Info.plist of ccid [was]Re: Pardonnez-moi  [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch removing Nitrokey Smartcard  products?] Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-10-20 13:20 +0200
          Re: Inclusion of devices in the Info.plist of ccid [was]Re:  Pardonnez-moi [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch removing  Nitrokey Smartcard products?] Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com> - 2016-10-20 18:20 +0200
            Re: Inclusion of devices in the Info.plist of ccid [was]Re:  Pardonnez-moi [was Re: libccid's Info.plist update in Stretch removing  Nitrokey Smartcard products?] Stephan Beck <sbeck@secure.mailbox.org> - 2016-10-20 21:20 +0200

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