[Opensc-devel] OpenPGP card status?

[Daniel P. <da...@po...>]

Hi,

I just had a look at this page:

https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/SupportedHardware

and it has OpenPGP card below the `Unsupported' heading

Is that still the case?  There appears to be a lot of detail on the
OpenPGP page:
https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/OpenPGP

Would it be possible to annotate the unsupported cards with some
comments to distinguish those that will never be supported from those
that are work-in-progress?

Looking at it from the other angle, the OpenSC FAQ took me to this page:
  https://sites.google.com/site/alonbarlev/gnupg-pkcs11

which has a very brief statement about "The GnuPG developers insist of
implementing smartcard support from scratch, what makes a low smartcard
variety" - for an outsider, it's not exactly clear what that means.

Is there any document the explains, at arm's length, the current state
of play with free-software related smart card technology and with some
practical comments about how people can mix-and-match all their
different use cases (e.g. ssh keys, gpg keys, X.509 certs for web/email,
VPN that use any of the above types of key, disk encryption, private
root CA key)?

Regards,

Daniel