Re: [Opensc-devel] opensc-pkcs11 in FireFox conflicting with closed-source PKCS11 provider

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

Hello,

2013/7/17 Alex Samorukov <ml...@os...>:
> On 07/17/2013 11:31 AM, Mat Arge wrote:
>> I am using /usr/lib/opensc-pkcs11.so  which i added to NSS using FF
>> configuration, so yes, of course i am sure. Problem is that when firefox
>> is running it preventing other, proprietary PKCS11 driver to access
>> card, and this specific card is not supported by OpenSC anyway, so i
>> have no idea why it is blocked.
>> But you said before, that your card is not supported by opensc. Or are you
>> talking about two different smartcards?
>
> Yes, i have a lot of cards. Most of them are supported by OpenSC and
> thats why i need this OpenSC-PKCS11 driver in the browser. But also i do
> have a card which is not supported by opensc and using own PKCS11
> library. Problem is that if FF is running i am unable to use this
> driver. I posted dump of the falied session (using  OpenSC PKCS#11 spy)
> to the http://pastebin.com/8s9ErZJ1 . It starts to work very slowly on
> C_Initialize and finally dying on C_OpenSession. If FF is closed
> everything works well. So i assume that for some reason opensc-pkcs11.so
> with FF is locking this card and want to fix that.

It may be bug in OpenSC that do not free some PC/SC resources.

Can you use PC/SC spy and generate a logfile file as documented in [1]
and send it?
To configure the spy with OpenSC you may have to edit /etc/opensc.conf and set:
provider_library = /usr/lib/libpcscspy.so

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau