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

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

On 14/12/15 10:37, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> I looks like Microsoft added an undocumented registry key to change the 5
> seconds delay.
> 
> Key CardDisconnectPowerDownDelay in
> HK_local_machine\software\microsoft\cryptography\calais
> The value defines the delay in seconds.
> 
> It also looks like this feature is also present in Windows 7 but with a 30
> seconds delay.


Wow, this is funny (not encountered yet) but basically this means that
generating longer keys (sometimes takes minute(s)) is not possible
without hacks on Windows, inside a card transaction ?