Smart Card access from JS in Browsers

This topic has been discussed in various contexts.  The following is my take on this subject.

Smart cards only represent one kind of secure crypto device; therefore it doesn't seem right doing something special for smart cards.

In 99.9% of all likely use-cases you only have a single card connected which does the need for selecting a specific card programatically from JS a no-issues.  For the 0.1% case user selection will
works fine.

Key filtering + External should minimize user hassles.

Key filtering: attributes applying to the key in question

External: externally supplied (connected) keys

If External is specified and there is no card etc inserted the user will be alerted.

Anders

Received on Monday, 29 August 2011 05:40:42 UTC