The new version of OS X 10.9 called Mavericks is now available since 22th October 2013. The operating system is now called OS X and not Mac OS X.
As I did with the previous major versions of Mac OS X Mountain Lion (and Lion) I will list changes in Maveriks regarding the smart card world.
pcsc-lite
Same version as in Mountain Lion. But seen bellow.
CCID driver
Same as in Mountain Lion.
CCID driver version 1.3.11.
$ grep -A 1 CFBundleShortVersionString /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/Info.plist
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.3.11</string>
The binary is now 64-bits only in Mavericks when it was 32-bits only in Mountain Lion and previous versions.
$ file /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libccid.dylib
/usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle/Contents/MacOS/libccid.dylib: Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
Source code
The source code is provided by Apple from the web site
OS X 10.9 Source. The two components are available in:
The source code is not yet available in the
subversion repository of the
SmartCard Services project.
The source code for the smart card components in Mac OS X 10.8 is available at
Mac OS X 10.8 Source. It is then easy to compare the two versions.
Changes
pcsc-lite
$ diff -ru SmartCardServices-55105 SmartCardServices-55111 | diffstat
Info-PCSC.plist | 2
SmartCardServices.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj | 7 -
src/PCSC/PCSCDevice.h | 2
src/PCSC/PCSCDriverBundle.h | 2
src/PCSC/hotplug_macosx.cpp | 2
src/PCSC/pcscd_reader.h | 2
src/PCSC/pcscdaemon.c | 54 -----------
src/PCSC/pcscdmonitor.h | 2
src/PCSC/pcscdserver.h | 2
src/PCSC/readerfactory.c | 127 ----------------------------
src/PCSC/readerstate.h | 2
src/PCSC/sys_macosx.cpp | 2
12 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-)
The respawn feature has been removed from
pcscd. This feature has been added in Lion and allows a 64-bits pcscd to restart in 32-bits if it find a 32-bits only driver. See
Mac OS X Lion and smart cards status for some more details.
I also note that the support of Rosetta is
still present. This has been added during Tiger (10.4 released in 2006) to support the migration from PowerPC and Intel processors. The idea is to be able to use a PowerPC (big endian) PC/SC client talking to an Intel (little endian) pcscd server. Some functions inside pcsc-lite are used to do the needed conversions like
SHSharedSegmentMsgToNetworkOrder() and
SHSharedSegmentMsgToHostOrder() in
src/PCSC/winscard_msg.cpp.
libccid
$ diff -ru SmartcardCCID-55000 SmartcardCCID-55005 | diffstat
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/compile: No such file or directory
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/config.guess: No such file or directory
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/config.sub: No such file or directory
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/depcomp: No such file or directory
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/install-sh: No such file or directory
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/ltmain.sh: No such file or directory
diff: SmartcardCCID-55000/libusb/libusb/missing: No such file or directory
Makefile | 2
files/automake_copy.patch |only
files/darwin_no_seize.patch |only
libusb/Makefile.in | 372 -
libusb/aclocal.m4 | 1404 +++-
libusb/autogen.sh | 4
libusb/autom4te.cache/output.0 |11877 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------
libusb/autom4te.cache/output.1 |11877 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------
libusb/autom4te.cache/requests | 80
libusb/autom4te.cache/traces.0 | 754 +-
libusb/autom4te.cache/traces.1 | 155
libusb/config.h.in | 20
libusb/configure |11767 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------
libusb/darwin.c | 6
libusb/doc/Makefile.in | 51
libusb/tests/Makefile.in | 168
16 files changed, 18722 insertions(+), 19815 deletions(-)
Only some files needed to rebuild the binary have been updated. libusb version is still libusb-0.1.13b and libccid is still ccid-1.3.11.
Impacts of the changes
Since the respawn feature has been removed from pcscd a 32-bits (Intel) only driver will not be usable on Mavericks. You have to provide a 64-bits (or Universal Binary with 32-bits and 64-bits) so it can be used on Mavericks.
Conclusion
Apple has not really updated the smart card components in Mavericks, or Mountain Lion or Lion. No bug or limitation has been fixed. And no new bug have been introduced.
Only 64-bits smart card drivers are usable on Mavericks.
The CCID driver provided (version 1.3.11) has been released on July 2009, 4 years ago. Since this version
146 readers have been added (112% more). Yes, more readers have been added since 1.3.11 than readers supported in version 1.3.11.
