[Pcsclite-muscle] Web smartcard access (?)

[Daniel d'Andrada]

Hi Sebastian,

PCSClite + CCID compiled to WebAssembly and talking to Web USB is
exactly what the Smart Card Connector extension does:
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/chromeos_smart_card_connector/blob/main/docs/index-developer.md

There's also Web Smart Card API being developed right now:
https://github.com/WICG/web-smart-card
https://wicg.github.io/web-smart-card/

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 3:33 PM Sebastien Lorquet <sebastien at lorquet.fr> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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