Re: [Opensc-devel] Android

[Martin P. <ma...@ma...>]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Andreas Schwier (ML)
<and...@ca...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone have an overview on the current status of OpenSC for Android
> ? The seek-for-android project did a port of the 0.11.13 version, so is
> anyone working on a port of the 0.13 release ?

IIRC the only thing required was direct linking (pcsc-lite). I've not
found the time/interest of trying to re-build android....


> Background is, that we've ported the SmartCard-HSM applet to run on a
> MicroSD card that can be embedded into a mobile phone.

Where can you buy such cards from?

> The
> remote-management interface of the SmartCard-HSM works independent of
> the PKCS#11 stack, but of course we need a full middleware stack to make
> PKI functions available to other applications.

As much as I've followed the topic I don't know of a universal "CSP"
style approach for Android and the only option is a) rooting b)
bundling a lot of stuff into applications that can then access the
devices.

I don't know if/how OpenMobile API can actually help with accessing
the secure element without patching/rooting.

The best option this far has seemed to be either NFC or Apriva bluetooth reader.

Martin