[Pcsclite-muscle] Web smartcard access (?)

[Sebastien Lorquet]

Hi,

Thank you for this information, I did not follow google developments.

Good thing that a Web Smart Card API is in the work.

So, I guess, we just have to wait for 2042... (the year all vaporware 
are released)

Sebastien

Le 16/06/2023 à 17:20, Daniel d'Andrada a écrit :
> 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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