Smart Card Subsystem
The Smart Card Subsystem component is based on Personal Computer/Smart Card (PC/SC) consortium standards and consists of the following parts:
- Resource Manager
- Card/Reader Selection UI
Resource Manager
This component manages access to readers and smart cards. To manage these resources, it performs the following three functions:
- Identifies and tracks resources.
- Allocates readers and resources across multiple applications.
- Supports transaction primitives for accessing services available on a given card.
The Resource Manager component also exposes a subset of the Microsoft Win32-based application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide applications with access to these functions.
Card/Reader Selection UI
This component allows simple smart card-aware applications to access a card and reader with minimum coding.
Services
There are no services for this component.
Associated Components
No other components interact with this component.
Settings
There are no configurable settings for this component.
Last updated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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