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- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:22:23 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15592 Summary: Feature Request: A javax.smartcardio alternative Product: HTML WG Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch ReportedBy: dieter@lin-k.net QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org, public-html@w3.org In the smartcard industry and especially in the eID enabled countries, that is countries with a smartcard citizen identity card, working with smartcards in a website context is rather restricted. Currently the only decent way out of the browser's sandbox to talk to a smartcard is by loading a Java 6 applet which uses the javax.smartcardio API. We feel that this current approach restricts innovation in the smartcard+web application world: * applets are hard to style * applets require users to install Java 6 * in some environments Java 6 is not available, and in others it might be a threatened technology It would be a good thing if a web application could send APDU commands to smartcards using Javascript without requiring users to install browser plugins or Java 6. While for some smartcard applications having to install some software is no problem at all because they run in IT-operations controlled environments, citizen oriented applications are a completely different beast. Having no other requirements than to install a recent browser would be of great benefit to all users and application owners. Adoption of a smartcard API in the HTML5 spec is I believe the best guarantee to vendor adoption. A last note to avoid confusion: the smartcardio API is not only about keypairs and signing which could be handled by some keychain-like API. The smartcardio API is about talking any protocol to any smartcard embedded applet. I hope this request was submitted to the correct bug tracker. If not, sorry for wasting your time. thanks, Dieter Houthooft an identity and access management industry professional in a 100% eID roll-out country (Belgium) -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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