New PyKCS11 1.5.2 available

Python 3: use strings instead of binary buffers for CK_UTF8CHAR PKCS#11 types. The behaviour is now the same as with Python 2
allow non string PIN values (binary PIN) for login(), initToken(), initPin(), setPin()
fix support of RSA PKCS PSS mechanism
The mechanism object now uses a parameter "mechanism" instead of hard coding the mechanism value to CKM_RSA_PKCS_PSS.
add support of Python 2.7 on Windows
add AppVeyor configuration (automatic Windows builds)
ckbytelist: remove possibility to give a initial size
samples/getinfo: do not list the mechanisms by default
samples/events:

do not list the mechanisms by default
add support of pinpad readers

some minor improvements

Windows

If you are a Windows user and you want binary packages then please work on the AppVeyor configuration:

Configuration file: appveyor.yml
Results: PyKCS11

MUSCLE web sites moved to .apdu.fr

Ludovic Rousseau

2018-03-18 17:20

With the decommissioning of alioth.debian.org I had to move the web site to a new place.

Update your bookmarks.

I also upgraded the HTML pages to Boostrap 4.0.

Please report any issue you may find.

Level 1.5 smart card support on macOS

Ludovic Rousseau

2018-03-01 13:07

In a previous article "Level 1 smart card support on Mac OS X" I described some simple commands to check if the smart card stack is working correctly on a macOS system.

By re-reading the presentation "Working with Smart Cards: macOS and Security" by Richard Purves I discovered a new command.

I already knew "system_profiler SPUSBDataType" to list the USB devices. I mentioned it in "Level 1 smart card support on Mac OS X" to check the USB reader is seen by the system. But system_profiler provides a better command for smart cards.

SPSmartCardsDataType

system_profiler has another very interesting command: system_profiler SPSmartCardsDataType

Clean macOS installation

Example 1:

$ system_profiler SPSmartCardsDataType
SmartCards:

    Readers:

      #01: Cherry KC 1000 SC (ATR:<3b7f9600 00803180 65b08441 3df612ff fe829000>)

    Reader Drivers:

      #01: org.debian.alioth.pcsclite.smartcardccid:1.4.27 (/usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle)

    Tokend Drivers:

    SmartCard Drivers:

      #01: com.apple.CryptoTokenKit.pivtoken:1.0 (/System/Library/Frameworks/CryptoTokenKit.framework/PlugIns/pivtoken.appex)

    Available SmartCards (keychain):

    Available SmartCards (token):

You get a lot of useful information:

list of smart card readers
list of installed reader drivers
list of tokend drivers
list of smart card drivers
available smart cards (keychain)
available smart cards (token)

What you can see in my example:

I use a Cherry KC 1000 SC reader. A card is inserted in the reader and you see the ATR.
by default Apple provides a CCID driver
by default Apple provides a PIV CryptoTokenKit token to support Personal Identity Verification cards

Using SafeNet Authentication Client

Example 2:

$ system_profiler SPSmartCardsDataType 
SmartCards:

    Readers:

      #01: Gemalto PC Twin Reader (ATR:<3b7f9600 00803180 65b08503 00ef120f fe829000>)

    Reader Drivers:

      #01: org.debian.alioth.pcsclite.smartcardccid:1.4.27 (/usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid.bundle)
      #02: com.SafeNet.eTokenIfdh:9.0.0.0 (/Library/Frameworks/eToken.framework/Versions/A/aks-ifdh.bundle)
      #03: com.gemalto.ifd-bccid:1.0 (/usr/local/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-bccid.bundle)
      #04: org.debian.alioth.pcsclite.smartcardccid:1.4.27 (/usr/local/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers/ifd-ccid-SafeNet-eToken5300.bundle)
      #05: (null):(null) (/Library/Frameworks/eToken.framework/Versions/A/ikey-ifdh.bundle)

    Tokend Drivers:

      #01: com.Safenet.eTokend:9.0 (/Library/Frameworks/eToken.framework/Versions/A/eTokend.tokend)

    SmartCard Drivers:

      #01: com.apple.CryptoTokenKit.pivtoken:1.0 (/System/Library/Frameworks/CryptoTokenKit.framework/PlugIns/pivtoken.appex)
      #02: com.gemalto.Gemalto-Smart-Card-Token.PKCS11-Token:1.0 (/Library/Frameworks/eToken.framework/Versions/A/SafeNet Authentication Client.app/Contents/PlugIns/PKCS11 Token.appex)

    Available SmartCards (keychain):

        com.gemalto.Gemalto-Smart-Card-Token.PKCS11-Token:9A522A4489DFA3DE:

          #01: Kind: private RSA 2048-bit, Certificate: <1cc4a99c 25e2b4eb 381850d2 e8e7a9a8 8d258b31>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #02: Kind: private RSA 2048-bit, Certificate: <425fa8c1 27ad75a1 aec73183 2b053b41 38befe7f>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #03: Kind: private RSA 4096-bit, Certificate: <16b5321b d4c7f3e0 e68ef3bd d2b03aee b23918d1>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #04: Kind: private RSA 4096-bit, Certificate: <16b5321b d4c7f3e0 e68ef3bd d2b03aee b23918d1>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #05: Kind: private RSA 2048-bit, Certificate: <31fde547 b4ca58d4 7b6231c2 62730efd 8c7538a1>, Usage: Sign Derive Decrypt Unwrap 

    Available SmartCards (token):

        com.gemalto.Gemalto-Smart-Card-Token.PKCS11-Token:9A522A4489DFA3DE:

          #01: Kind: private RSA 2048-bit, Certificate: <1cc4a99c 25e2b4eb 381850d2 e8e7a9a8 8d258b31>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #02: Kind: private RSA 2048-bit, Certificate: <425fa8c1 27ad75a1 aec73183 2b053b41 38befe7f>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #03: Kind: private RSA 4096-bit, Certificate: <16b5321b d4c7f3e0 e68ef3bd d2b03aee b23918d1>, Usage: Sign Decrypt Unwrap 
          #04: Kind: private RSA 2048-bit, Certificate: <31fde547 b4ca58d4 7b6231c2 62730efd 8c7538a1>, Usage: Sign Derive Decrypt Unwrap 
          #05: Certificate <1a222d8f 7458d082 d413fbdb 40c85f56 f48def63>

In this second example I installed SAC (SafeNet Authentication Client) from Gemalto. You can see some differences:

more reader drivers are installed
a tokend driver is installed
another SmartCard (Crypto Token Kit or CTK) driver is installed
the card inserted in the reader is available in the keychain

Conclusion

This command provides information of a higher level that pcsctest.
You know what drivers (for readers and for cards) are installed.

New version of libccid: 1.4.29

Ludovic Rousseau

2018-02-21 09:05

I just released a version 1.4.29 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver.

Changes:
1.4.29 - 21 February 2018, Ludovic Rousseau

Add support of

Access IS NFC Smart Module (With idProduct 0x0164)
Bit4id Digital-DNA Key
Bit4id Digital-DNA Key BT
Bluink Ltd. Bluink CCID
Chicony HP Skylab USB Smartcard Keyboard
HID Global OMNIKEY 5023 Smart Card Reader
HID Global OMNIKEY 5027CK CCID CONFIG IF
KeyXentic Inc. KX906 Smart Card Reader
Spyrus Inc Rosetta USB
Spyrus Inc WorkSafe Pro
Watchdata USB Key (idProduct: 0x0418)

The C3PO LTC31 v2 wrongly declares PIN support
Remove extra EGT patch because if has bad side effects

How to use SCardGetStatusChange()?

Ludovic Rousseau

2018-02-05 08:38

Some smart card applications need to detect when a card is inserted or a reader is added to the system. One way to solve the problem is to call SCardListReaders() and SCardGetStatusChange() in a loop.

SCardListReaders()

SCardListReaders() is a function to list the smart card reader(s) connected to the system.

The function API is:

LONG SCardListReaders(
  SCARDCONTEXT  hContext,
  LPCSTR   mszGroups,
  LPSTR   mszReaders,
  LPDWORD   pcchReaders
)

The result in mszReaders is a multi-string containing the list of readers.

SCardGetStatusChange()

SCardGetStatusChange() is a function to get the status of a list of readers and wait for events.

The function API is:

LONG SCardGetStatusChange(
  SCARDCONTEXT        hContext,
  DWORD               dwTimeout,
  SCARD_READERSTATE * rgReaderStates,
  DWORD               cReaders 
)

The function will return any change from the reader(s) listed in the parameter rgReaderStates. See the function documentation for more details.

dwTimeout is a timeout in milliseconds. The function will block until the timeout expires or a change is reported.

Real world (bad) application

Here is a PC/SC log trace (see "PCSC API spy, third try") of an real world (non Free Software) application:

SCardEstablishContext
 i dwScope: SCARD_SCOPE_SYSTEM (0x00000002)
 o hContext: 0x40DB4852
 => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000189]
SCardListReaders
 i hContext: 0x40DB4852
 i mszGroups: (null)
 o pcchReaders: 0x00000001
 o mszReaders: 
 => Cannot find a smart card reader. (SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE [0x8010002E])  [0.000090]
SCardReleaseContext
 i hContext: 0x40DB4852
 => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000032]
    SCardEstablishContext
     i dwScope: SCARD_SCOPE_SYSTEM (0x00000002)
     o hContext: 0x21793B9A
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000294]
    SCardListReaders
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i mszGroups: (null)
     o pcchReaders: 0x00000001
     o mszReaders: 
     => Cannot find a smart card reader. (SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE [0x8010002E])  [0.000124]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000014]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000047]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000035]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000037]
    SCardListReaders
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i mszGroups: (null)
     o pcchReaders: 0x00000001
     o mszReaders: 
     => Cannot find a smart card reader. (SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE [0x8010002E])  [0.000186]

[... lots of similar lines removed...]

    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000014]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000034]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000046]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000035]
    SCardListReaders
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i mszGroups: (null)
     o pcchReaders: 0x00000001
     o mszReaders: 
     => Cannot find a smart card reader. (SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE [0x8010002E])  [0.000160]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000014]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000036]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000035]
    SCardGetStatusChange
     i hContext: 0x21793B9A
     i dwTimeout: 0x000000C8 (200)
     i cReaders: 0
     => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000037]

Thread 1/2
Results sorted by total execution time
total time: 10.209201 sec
0.000189 sec (  1 calls)  0.00% SCardEstablishContext
0.000090 sec (  1 calls)  0.00% SCardListReaders
0.000032 sec (  1 calls)  0.00% SCardReleaseContext

Thread 2/2
Results sorted by total execution time
total time: 10.209201 sec
0.002053 sec ( 13 calls)  0.02% SCardListReaders
0.001655 sec ( 52 calls)  0.02% SCardGetStatusChange
0.000294 sec (  1 calls)  0.00% SCardEstablishContext

The application was executed during 10 seconds. The application made 14 calls to SCardListReaders() and 52 calls to SCardGetStatusChange().

No reader was connected at the beginning and nothing happened during the 10 seconds. So all the PC/SC calls were made to detect... nothing.

Real world (good) application

For this second example I will use my pcsc_scan application (from pcsc-tools):

SCardEstablishContext
 i dwScope: SCARD_SCOPE_SYSTEM (0x00000002)
 o hContext: 0x4D0F7F8C
 => Command successful. (SCARD_S_SUCCESS [0x00000000])  [0.000321]
SCardGetStatusChange
 i hContext: 0x4D0F7F8C
 i dwTimeout: 0x00000000 (0)
 i cReaders: 1
 i szReader: \\?PnP?\Notification
 i  dwCurrentState:  (0x00000000)
 i  dwEventState: SCARD_STATE_UNKNOWN, SCARD_STATE_UNAVAILABLE, SCARD_STATE_EXCLUSIVE, SCARD_STATE_INUSE, SCARD_STATE_MUTE, SCARD_STATE_PRESENT, SCARD_STATE_ATRMATCH (0x55FD66A4FBEC)
 i  Atr length: 0x55FD66A4FBF2 (94546837175282)
 i  Atr: NULL
 o szReader: \\?PnP?\Notification
 o  dwCurrentState:  (0x00000000)
 o  dwEventState:  (0x00000000)
 o  Atr length: 0x55FD66A4FBF2 (94546837175282)
 o  Atr: NULL
 => Command timeout. (SCARD_E_TIMEOUT [0x8010000A])  [0.000379]
SCardListReaders
 i hContext: 0x4D0F7F8C
 i mszGroups: (null)
 o pcchReaders: 0x00000001
 o mszReaders: NULL
 => Cannot find a smart card reader. (SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE [0x8010002E])  [0.000129]
SCardListReaders
 i hContext: 0x4D0F7F8C
 i mszGroups: (null)
 o pcchReaders: 0x00000001
 o mszReaders: 
 => Cannot find a smart card reader. (SCARD_E_NO_READERS_AVAILABLE [0x8010002E])  [0.000098]
SCardGetStatusChange
 i hContext: 0x4D0F7F8C
 i dwTimeout: 0xFFFFFFFF (4294967295)
 i cReaders: 1
 i szReader: \\?PnP?\Notification
 i  dwCurrentState:  (0x00000000)
 i  dwEventState:  (0x00000000)
 i  Atr length: 0x55FD66A4FBF2 (94546837175282)
 i  Atr: NULL

Thread 1/1
Results sorted by total execution time
total time: -1.000000 sec
0.000379 sec (  1 calls) -0.04% SCardGetStatusChange
0.000321 sec (  1 calls) -0.03% SCardEstablishContext
0.000227 sec (  2 calls) -0.02% SCardListReaders

The execution conditions are the same as in the previous case: no reader connected at the beginning and no change during 10 seconds.

pcsc_scan made 2 initial calls to SCardListReaders() and 2 calls to SCardGetStatusChange(). The second SCardGetStatusChange() call was interrupted after 10 seconds of execution (using Control-C). That is why the returned values of SCardGetStatusChange() are not logged.

\\?PnP?\Notification reader name

The difference between the 2 applications is the use of the special reader name \\?PnP?\Notification by pcsc_scan.

SCardGetStatusChange() is perfect to detect card events in the selected readers. But how to know when a new reader has been connected? When PC/SC was designed (PC/SC specification 1.0 released in 1996) most smart card readers were (mostly) serial readers. USB was not yet deployed (USB 1.0 specification were also released in 1996). (Serial) reader hotplug was not a use case at that time. So it is not surprising this use case is not handled by PC/SC.

To solve this problem a special reader name is used. This is (still) NOT documented in the PC/SC workgroup specification, even in the version 2 (PC/SC v2 part 5 page 18), and I guess it is a Microsoft invention.

The special reader name will tell SCardGetStatusChange() to generate associated events when a reader is added or removed. So no need to continuously call SCardListReaders() as it is the case with the first application.

macOS case

Windows WinSCard does support \\?PnP?\Notification since a long time.

pcsc-lite (WinSCard for Unix) does support \\?PnP?\Notification since version 1.6.0 released in May 2010.

Apple has no support of \\?PnP?\Notification reader name. I opened a bug for that in 2015 (see "OS X El Capitan missing feature: SCardGetStatusChange() and "\\?PnP?\Notification"") but nothing changed since then.

So on macOS you have to regularly call SCardListReaders() to detect a reader connection or disconnection.

CPU consumption

To reduce the CPU and battery usage an efficient PC/SC application should always use \\?PnP?\Notification when possible (so on Windows and Unix except macOS).

pcsc-tools 1.5.0

Since its version 1.5.0 pcsc_scan provides a graphical animation when nothing happens. To update the animation every second a timeout of 1 second is used in SCardGetStatusChange(). So if you redo the experiment with a recent pcsc_scan you will see one SCardGetStatusChange() call every second.

Since a new reader connection is detected using SCardGetStatusChange() no need to also call SCardListReaders() every second.

SCardCancel()

To force SCardGetStatusChange() to return before the end of the timeout you must use SCardCancel() from another thread of the application.

You can use a very long timeout (or even the special value INFINITE) and use SCardCancel() when needed.

Conclusion

PC/SC provides functions to be notified of events. I invested a lot of time and work to make pcsc-lite efficient regarding events management. Every pcsc-lite internal polling has been removed.

Please use \\?PnP?\Notification in your applications. You may not save the world but you will save a few CPU cycles.

MUSCLE mailing list statistics for 2017

Ludovic Rousseau

2018-01-01 16:41

As I did in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 ans 2016 I propose some statistics of the MUSCLE mailing list usage.

Important: list server change

As indicated in "[Pcsclite-muscle] How to replace/move the MUSCLE mailing list?" the list has moved to a new home.

The list is now hosted at http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/pcsclite-muscle.

The old list archives have also been migrated. No email should have been lost.

Text only, no html email

One important change is that the list server only accept text emails, html emails are rejected. Sorry for that. Please configure your email client to send text only (I don't know how to do that using Gmail).

Evolution

Year	Total number of messages	Progression
2009	603
2010	718	+19 %
2011	999	+39 %
2012	207	-79 %
2013	198	-4 %
2014	194	-2 %
2014	194	-2 %
2015	120	-38 %
2016	125	+4 %
2017	128	+2 %

Comments

I am still the top poster on the MUSCLE mailing list with 42% of the messages.

Statistics from 7.1.2017 to 29.12.2017
for pcsclite-muscle@lists.infradead.org

People who have written most messages:

	Author	Msg	Percent
1	ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com	54	42.19 %
2	wully@bluewin.ch	7	5.47 %
3	ludovic.rousseau@free.fr	7	5.47 %
4	hemanth.sahara@gmail.com	6	4.69 %
5	wpichler@callino.at	4	3.12 %
6	olivier.revillon@akka.eu	4	3.12 %
7	maximilian.stein@secunet.com	3	2.34 %
8	fdeybach@gmail.com	3	2.34 %
9	pcsclite@madingley.org	3	2.34 %
10	martin@martinpaljak.net	3	2.34 %
11	godfreyhkchung@gmail.com	3	2.34 %
12	nmav@redhat.com	2	1.56 %
13	euidzero@gmail.com	2	1.56 %
14	fmarchal@perso.be	2	1.56 %
15	frankmorgner@gmail.com	2	1.56 %
16	mauro@faresoftware.it	2	1.56 %
17	mvogt1@gmail.com	2	1.56 %
18	ivo.raisr@oracle.com	1	0.78 %
19	emaxx@google.com	1	0.78 %
20	uv.wildner.ext@openlimit.com	1	0.78 %
21	git@madingley.org	1	0.78 %
22	robinlambertz+dev@gmail.com	1	0.78 %
23	nonomos@mail.com	1	0.78 %
24	carsten.blueggel@freenet.de	1	0.78 %
25	mstjohns@comcast.net	1	0.78 %
26	szempy@gmail.com	1	0.78 %
27	gokcenur.canli@udea.com.tr	1	0.78 %
28	y.bulbul@hotmail.com	1	0.78 %
29	fgrieu@gmail.com	1	0.78 %
30	wrosenauer@gmail.com	1	0.78 %
	other	6	4.69 %

Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):

	Author	KBytes
1	ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com	686.4
2	nonomos@mail.com	196.6
3	wully@bluewin.ch	92.3
4	git@madingley.org	92.1
5	hemanth.sahara@gmail.com	68.4
6	ludovic.rousseau@free.fr	61.5
7	mauro@faresoftware.it	56.8
8	nmav@redhat.com	52.6
9	fmarchal@perso.be	34.9
10	godfreyhkchung@gmail.com	34.5
11	frankmorgner@gmail.com	32.6
12	martin@martinpaljak.net	26.4
13	pcsclite@madingley.org	26.1
14	Rajan.Gurjar@ll.mit.edu	24.8
15	y.bulbul@hotmail.com	22.4
16	mvogt1@gmail.com	20.3
17	maximilian.stein@secunet.com	19.0
18	wpichler@callino.at	18.0
19	mstjohns@comcast.net	17.1
20	fdeybach@gmail.com	16.7
21	mickamusset@gmail.com	16.5
22	euidzero@gmail.com	15.9
23	wrosenauer@gmail.com	15.6
24	00cpxxx@gmail.com	13.8
25	carsten.blueggel@freenet.de	13.7
26	"Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS"	13.0
27	dwmw2@infradead.org	9.9
28	olivier.revillon@akka.eu	9.8
29	fgrieu@gmail.com	8.5
30	emaxx@google.com	7.4

Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):

	Author	bytes
1	nonomos@mail.com	201306
2	git@madingley.org	94335
3	mauro@faresoftware.it	29074
4	nmav@redhat.com	26924
5	Rajan.Gurjar@ll.mit.edu	25445
6	y.bulbul@hotmail.com	22970
7	fmarchal@perso.be	17881
8	mstjohns@comcast.net	17501
9	mickamusset@gmail.com	16876
10	frankmorgner@gmail.com	16685
11	wrosenauer@gmail.com	15995
12	00cpxxx@gmail.com	14142
13	carsten.blueggel@freenet.de	14001
14	wully@bluewin.ch	13495
15	"Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS"	13337
16	ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com	13015
17	godfreyhkchung@gmail.com	11792
18	hemanth.sahara@gmail.com	11670
19	mvogt1@gmail.com	10396
20	dwmw2@infradead.org	10099
21	martin@martinpaljak.net	9024
22	ludovic.rousseau@free.fr	8999
23	pcsclite@madingley.org	8920
24	fgrieu@gmail.com	8725
25	euidzero@gmail.com	8166
26	emaxx@google.com	7601
27	maximilian.stein@secunet.com	6480
28	robinlambertz+dev@gmail.com	5834
29	fdeybach@gmail.com	5694
30	ivo.raisr@oracle.com	5613

Table showing the most successful subjects:

	Subject	Msg	Percent
1	[Pcsclite-muscle] Gemalto (was Gemplus) GemPC Key SmartCard	12	9.38 %
2	[Pcsclite-muscle] Serial non-usb readers - Help required	8	6.25 %
3	[Pcsclite-muscle] Cyberjack e-com on openSuse 42.2 fails	7	5.47 %
4	[Pcsclite-muscle] How to replace/move the MUSCLE mailing list?	6	4.69 %
5	[Pcsclite-muscle] max length of randomLen for C_GenerateRandom	5	3.91 %
6	[Pcsclite-muscle] Jinmuyu MR800 card reader problem	5	3.91 %
7	[Pcsclite-muscle] pcsc_stringify_error thread safety	4	3.12 %
8	[Pcsclite-muscle] Race condition with SCardGetStatusChange() when	4	3.12 %
9	[Pcsclite-muscle] Cherry kc sc 1000	4	3.12 %
10	[Pcsclite-muscle] Real time issue for register / unregister to	4	3.12 %
11	[Pcsclite-muscle] How to Identify USB devices on linux/ubuntu/debian	3	2.34 %
12	[Pcsclite-muscle] omnikey 3121 and long APDUs	3	2.34 %
13	[Pcsclite-muscle] SCardConnect() returns unresponsive card	3	2.34 %
14	[Pcsclite-muscle] RFC - one old and one new bluetooth device	3	2.34 %
15	[Pcsclite-muscle] CCID_Receive Card absent or mute	3	2.34 %
16	[Pcsclite-muscle] Yubikey init failed	2	1.56 %
17	[Pcsclite-muscle] libccid IFDHControl() / CmdEscape() might	2	1.56 %
18	[Pcsclite-muscle] ACS ACR122U A9 issues	2	1.56 %
19	[Pcsclite-muscle] Building CCID from Github encounters error	2	1.56 %
20	[Pcsclite-muscle] More smart cards compile problem	2	1.56 %
21	[Pcsclite-muscle] PCSC-LITE more than one Card Reader.	2	1.56 %
22	[Pcsclite-muscle] EZ100PU/PR Linux 64 bit	2	1.56 %
23	[Pcsclite-muscle] How to find out which process is accessing the card?	2	1.56 %
24	[Pcsclite-muscle] Fujitsu D323 Reader properties	2	1.56 %
25	[Pcsclite-muscle] New pcsc-lite 1.8.23	2	1.56 %
26	[Pcsclite-muscle] problem with scanning OMNIKEY card	2	1.56 %
27	New version of libccid: 1.4.26	1	0.78 %
28	[Pcsclite-muscle] generic drivers?	1	0.78 %
29	[Pcsclite-muscle] Data races related to SCardCancel	1	0.78 %
30	[Pcsclite-muscle] How to Identify USB devices on	1	0.78 %
	other	28	21.88 %

Most used email clients:

	Mailer	Msg	Percent
1	(unknown)	83	64.84 %
2	Mozilla/5.x	27	21.09 %
3	Zimbra 8.6.0_GA_1153 (ZimbraWebClient - FF50 (Linux)/8.6.0_GA_1153)	4	3.12 %
4	Mutt	4	3.12 %
5	Apple Mail (2.3273)	3	2.34 %
6	KMail	2	1.56 %
7	K-9 Mail for Android	1	0.78 %
8	Apple Mail (2.3259)	1	0.78 %
9	Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2	1	0.78 %
10	Zimbra 7.2.0-GA2598 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Mac)/7.2.0-GA2598)	1	0.78 %
	other	1	0.78 %

Table of maximal quoting:

	Author	Percent
1	szempy@gmail.com	30.71 %
2	fdeybach@gmail.com	22.80 %
3	olivier.revillon@akka.eu	21.25 %
4	wpichler@callino.at	20.87 %
5	gokcenur.canli@udea.com.tr	20.24 %
6	00cpxxx@gmail.com	16.28 %
7	euidzero@gmail.com	16.13 %
8	robinlambertz+dev@gmail.com	15.63 %
9	mauro@faresoftware.it	12.66 %
10	pcsclite@madingley.org	11.36 %
11	martin@martinpaljak.net	11.04 %
12	frankmorgner@gmail.com	10.86 %
13	maximilian.stein@secunet.com	10.19 %
14	carsten.blueggel@freenet.de	10.12 %
15	fmarchal@perso.be	9.44 %
16	fgrieu@gmail.com	8.31 %
17	ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com	8.21 %
18	Rajan.Gurjar@ll.mit.edu	7.66 %
19	uv.wildner.ext@openlimit.com	7.41 %
20	ivo.raisr@oracle.com	7.06 %
21	y.bulbul@hotmail.com	5.94 %
22	ludovic.rousseau@free.fr	5.68 %
23	"Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS"	5.51 %
24	mvogt1@gmail.com	3.50 %
25	wully@bluewin.ch	3.44 %
26	mstjohns@comcast.net	3.44 %
27	hemanth.sahara@gmail.com	2.95 %
28	dwmw2@infradead.org	2.06 %
29	godfreyhkchung@gmail.com	0.80 %
30	nonomos@mail.com	0.24 %
	average	6.75 %

Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:

msgs	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	12	11	12	8	9	13	10	13	6	8	3	5	6	3	2
hour	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

Warning: 1 message(s) not counted.

Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:

msgs	0	1	1	4	6	4	3	2	2	1	5	2	10	4	5	4	7	12	5	6	6	5	3	5	0	2	4	7	5	5	0
day	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Warning: 2 message(s) not counted.

Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:

msgs	19	18	17	30	20	7	16
	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun

Warning: 1 message(s) not counted.

Maximal quoting:

Author :	ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com
Subject :	[Pcsclite-muscle] pcsc_stringify_error thread safety
Date :	Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:41:40 +0100
Quote ratio:	37.61% / 8049 bytes

Longest message:

Author :	nonomos@mail.com
Subject :	[Pcsclite-muscle] configure gives config.sub error
Date :	Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:49:09 +0200
Size :	201795 bytes

Most successful subject:

Subject :	[Pcsclite-muscle] Gemalto (was Gemplus) GemPC Key SmartCard
No. of msgs:	12
Total size :	163507 bytes

Final summary:

Total number of messages:	128
Total number of different authors:	35
Total number of different subjects:	57
Total size of messages (w/o headers):	1915107 bytes
Average size of a message:	14961 bytes

Input file last updated: Mon Jan 1 17:34:39 2018

Generated by MailListStat v1.3

Happy new year 2018

Ludovic Rousseau

2018-01-01 12:47

Dear readers,

I wish you a happy new year for 2018.

In 2017 I published 34 articles on this blog (49 in 2017 and 51 in 2016). It is decreasing.

Audience

The small gap in 2017 corresponds to July and August.

Most read articles

Clearly my readers are interested in sample codes. Maybe I should provide source codes to illustrate how to perform some simple tasks involving smart cards.

Conclusion

"Forecasting is difficult especially when it concerns the future." Pierre Dac. What I can predict is that I will continue this blog.

This blog has no advertising. If you want to support it you can send me some bitcoins. If you want to send $ or € instead of bitcoins then contact me.

New version of pcsc-lite: 1.8.23

Ludovic Rousseau

2017-12-18 20:24

I just released a new version of pcsc-lite 1.8.23.
pcsc-lite is a Free Software implementation of the PC/SC (or WinSCard) API for Unix systems.

Changes:
1.8.23: Ludovic Rousseau
18 December 2017

use libsystemd instead sd-daemon.{c,h}
install_spy.sh: add support of Ubuntu
spy: add support SCardStatus() with NULL pcbAtrLen
Some other minor improvements

Changes:

Changes:

Changes:

Windows

SPSmartCardsDataType

Clean macOS installation

Using SafeNet Authentication Client

Conclusion

SCardListReaders()

SCardGetStatusChange()

Real world (bad) application

Real world (good) application

\\?PnP?\Notification reader name

macOS case

CPU consumption

pcsc-tools 1.5.0

SCardCancel()

Conclusion

Important: list server change

Text only, no html email

Evolution

Comments

Statistics from 7.1.2017 to 29.12.2017for pcsclite-muscle@lists.infradead.org

People who have written most messages:

Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):

Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):

Table showing the most successful subjects:

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Table of maximal quoting:

Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:

Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:

Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:

Maximal quoting:

Longest message:

Most successful subject:

Final summary:

Audience

Most read articles

Conclusion

Statistics from 7.1.2017 to 29.12.2017
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