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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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Hi Børge,

Børge Holen:
> 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


Ludovic Rousseau IS the (main) author/developer of ccid/libccid driver
package (1,2,3) - based partially on existing software of two other
developers - the maintainer of Debian's libccid package and contributes
to many other smart card driver related packages/projects, really
impressive. He wrote that in order to have the Nitrokey tokens (or any
other) included in the list of supported readers, he has to charge a
fee, because the setting-up and performing of the tests is
time-intensive (and I think that this is a legitimate reason).
Aren't the list of supported readers and the content of the Info.plist
file (<VendorID> <FriendlyName>) basically the same thing? That's what I
thought.
I received an email from him (well, excluding the possibility of a faked
mail) in reply to a request I made. But, certainly I am not allowed to
simply publish it on the list without his consent.

Cheers

Stephan

(1) https://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html
(2) https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/pcsclite/CCID.git
(3) https://www.openhub.net/accounts/LudovicRousseau
(4) https://www.openhub.net/p/libccid

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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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