[Muscle] Remote connections to pcsc

[Douglas E. Engert]

Shawn Willden wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a situation where it would be convenient to have a card reader 
> connected to one machine, and the application using it running on another 
> machine.
> 
> It occurred to me that if libpcsclite were to use a TCP socket rather than a 
> UNIX socket to connect to pcscd, this would be easy to accomplish.
> 

What are the security implications to doing this?
How would the stream be protected? ssh?

Windows Remote Desktop can forward the smart card under the
"Local Resources","Local devices and resources"->"more". I don't know
if this is part of the protocol.

There is an Open source version of RDC, rdesktop, but I don't know if it
does smart cards.


> Has anyone tried this?
> 
> Is the over-the-socket protocol platform-dependent?  Would there be any issues 
> with using a different platform on each end (OS/CPU)?
> 
> I'm going to give it a try in the morning, but I thought it might be worth 
> seeing if anyone in the community has any thoughts/warnings.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Shawn.
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