[Muscle] Driver for remote card reader

[Peter Koch]

Dear MUSCLE mailing list:

This is a windows related questing, so I should not ask it on the MUSCLE list. But maybe you can help or know a better place where to ask this.

I would like to write a driver for a (virtual) card reader that will talk to a (real) card reader on a remote system. I'm trying to do this OS-independent. So it should be possible to connect to a card reader on a Windows-system from a unix system and vice-versa.

So far I'm almost finished with an ifd_handler for pcsclite and a server-programm that has to run on the machine where the real card reader is located. I do know (at least in theory) how to write the server-programm such that it can be compiled under both unix and windows.

But how do I write an ifd_handler under windows?

I just got the Microsoft DDK from a friend. Do I have to write a WDM-driver (which would be a real pain for a unix-focussed person like me)? Or do I mistake writing a Windows-Driver with writing an IFD-Handler? I was hoping that writing an IFD_handler would be comparable to writing a GINA-dll or a PKCS#11-dll (which I have done in the past - without the need to use the DDK). But I cannot find any documentation about  the "Windows Smart Card Reader IFD-Handler API".

Where can I find some sample source?

What do you think about all this? All hints or comments are greatly appreciated.

Peter Koch
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