[Pcsclite-muscle] Authenticate on OSX with NFC

[Ludovic Rousseau]

2015-01-24 13:45 GMT+01:00 Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <henrik at synth.no>:
> Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
>
> 2015-01-20 21:45 GMT+01:00 Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <henrik at synth.no>:
>
> So I built pcsc-lite [5], and ifdnfc builds nicely against that.  But pcscd
> doesn't seem to find the reader.  testpcsc says:
>
>    Testing SCardIsValidContext    : Invalid handle. (don't panic)
>    Testing SCardListReaders    : Cannot find a smart card reader. (don't
> panic)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> According to your email "Store key on NFC tag that is acceptable to
> sc_auth?" [1] to the SmartcardServices-Users list you solved the
> problem and your ACS ACR122U reader is available from PC/SC.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/smartcardservices-users/2015-January/000454.html
>
>
> Hi Ludovic.
>
> I haven't solved the problem, I guess I didn't explain it properly in the
> mail you link to.
>
> I am able build pcsc-lite-1.8.13.tar.bz2 myself, and get ifdnfc to build
> against that.  But I am unable to get that version of pcsc-lite to connect
> to my reader (with testpcsc).

Do not change the PC/SC layer provided by Apple unless you really know
what you do.

> The stock OSX version of pcsc (with /usr/bin/pcsctest), on the other hand,
> connects to the reader just fine.  But I am unable to build ifdnfc against
> that.
>
> So I need to:
>
> * either manage to build ifdnfc against the stock OSX version of pcsc

Why do you (think you) need ifdnfc?

> * or make my build of pcsc-lite-1.8.13.tar.bz2 connect to my reader.  Could
> there be that I need to create a reader.conf for ACS ACR122U?

Bad idea of Mac OS X.

I guess you want to use libnfc. Exact?
If yes you should be able to use the acr122_pcsc driver provided by
libnfc and use the stock PC/SC layer.

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau