[Pcsclite-muscle] HELP! Any experience on smart card chip wearing?

[Ludovic Rousseau]

2014-09-08 11:19 GMT+02:00 Umberto Rustichelli <umberto.rustichelli at gt50.org>:
>
> OK, tests for millions of signatures were mostly positive for you (you all
> in the list up to now) and also for us (things always break in production,
> don't you know?).
> The main difference is that both my production environment and test
> environment work with 14 cards, with 2 USB hubs, 7 cards per hub (not one
> card) and I never re-login/reconnect, just go on signing exploiting the
> existing PKCS#11 session.
>
> The only difference between my test and production environment were the
> cards (the customer's cards are a bit more recent).
> I think that we're going nowhere at the moment (my fault, given that I
> cannot provide much debug data), anyway I'll keep listening if anyone can
> help... I suppose that if we broaden the suspects pool to include a USB
> glitch (excessive power drain that hampers USB communication) we are going
> too far...

It may be a temporary hardware issue.
But in this case you should not have "apparently every time we restart
the cards the time-to-failure gets shorter"
Do you have numbers about the "gets shorter"? It is 10%, 50% or 90% shorter?

Do you have the problem with different readers from different manufacturers?

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau