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Bug#287317: ITP: eid -- software to support the eID, the new Belgian electronical ID card



On Dec 28, Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> > the biggest issue is: belpic includes gtk code so it can do a gui
> > popup to ask for a pin. I'm not sure it is nice to link libopensc
> > with gtk. I'd rather prefer a mechanism where the application
> > registeres a callback function. maybe also make it possible to
> > specify a gui plugin in the config file that will be loaded
> > automaticaly and used as default callback.
> Well the pinentry program from the GnuPG folks seems to be their
> solution to this problem. Maybe it could be used to solve this one? 
Yes. Other options:
- using the gnome-keyring framework
- discarding most of this openssl-based stuff, which is probably ugly,
  and start using GnuPG 1.9 which supports X.509 certificates and smart
  cards.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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