[Pcsclite-muscle] Web smartcard access (?)

[Sebastien Lorquet]

Hi all,

For a time in the Past, it was possible to enumerate smart card readers 
and to exchange APDUs with smart card from various web extensions, both 
in internet explorer (via ActiveX crimes) or in firefox (via XPCOM crimes).

Browsers got updated, Chrome won it all, and now it's all gone.

So is it still possible to access smart card in a browser context in 
2023 and how?


Now, we have webassembly and webusb in chrome, maybe chromium. Firefox 
still does not have it.

And I wonder if pcsclite, in a form executable from browser context, 
could be compiled to webassembly with a webusb backend so we can do 
smartcards in the browser again?

Clearly the full pcscd daemon + libpcsc library is not workable... but 
something could be, with shortcuts?

I am clearly incompetent to design all of this but if someone else was 
curious enough to try... some others people would use this, including me.


Best regards,

Sebastien