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On 13 December 2015 at 18:20, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote: |
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> I was trying to cleanup my local USE flag settings and stumbled on the |
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> following three: smartcard, pcsc-lite and pkcs11. |
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> Knowing all 3 are related, I greped use.local.desc to see what each |
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> meant for different packages. To sum up what I found: |
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> * pcsc-lite is basically: enable smartcard support through <pkg>sys- |
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> apps/pcsc-lite</pkg> |
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> * pkcs11: enabled PKCS#11 (smartcard) via $pkg |
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> These look like the same thing to me so I propose we merge them all |
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> into USE=smartcard as this is the feature being enabled, not the lib or |
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> the standard being used to access the hardware if any. |
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pcsc-lite and PKCS#11 interfaces are both related to smartcards but |
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different unrelated interfaces. I am unsure merging them will serve |
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the purpose for applications that are capable of supporting more than |
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one interface. |
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also, please notice that PKCS#11 is not all about smartcards, but an |
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interface to any cryptographic hardware. |
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Regards, |
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Alon |
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