Re: [Opensc-devel] smart card reset after 5 seconds on Windows

[Jaroslav I. <jar...@gm...>]

As a result there are also commercial middleware solutions available out
there which display their own PIN dialog during the signing operation and
you need to enter your PIN in less then 5 seconds otherwise signing
operation fails :)

Regards, Jaroslav


On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Vincent Le Toux <
vin...@my...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just want to share something on which I've lost my day before finding
> this:
> Since Windows 10 (8?) the card is reset if a smart card transaction is
> inactive for 5 seconds.
>
> Quote: "If a transaction is held on the card for more than five seconds
> with no operations happening on that card, then the card is reset. Calling
> any of the Smart Card and Reader Access Functions or Direct Card Access
> Functions on the card that is transacted results in the timer being reset
> to continue allowing the transaction to be used."
> source:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379469%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> This timeout was not active on Windows 7.
> Not easy to attach a debugger to debug OpenSC with that  ...
>
> regards,
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> Vincent Le Toux
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