- From: Marcos Caceres <mcaceres@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:26:35 +0100
- To: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Cc: sysapps <public-sysapps@w3.org>
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: > On 2013-09-26 22:10, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > Hi Folks who know about secure elements, > > > > What's the deal with the "PC/SC Workgroup Specifications" (link below)? Are they similar to what we've been talking about for secure elements? > > > > http://www.pcscworkgroup.com/specifications/specdownload.php > > Hi Marcos, > > If we are talking about the Gemalto's take on SE, I would say that PC/SC > probably is the low-level interface the SE API would hook into. This > interface is used in PCs (Windows, Linux, etc) for talking to smart cards. > > If we OTOH talk about embedded SE's like featured in Android 4.3 or your > truly's SKS/KeyGen2, PC/SC is not a part of the plot. > > Microsoft's SE-solution shipping in Windows RT is probably not based > on PC/SC since there already is another API in place (TPM or TSS). Thanks Anders for the prompt reply and clarification! -- Marcos Caceres
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