Springcard blog describes an interesting way to access smart cards: via web browser, JavaScript and javax.smartcardio (PC/SC reader).
I'm in some doubt as to the usefulness of this... after all, a smart card is a trusted portable device and tying it down (leaving it in the reader connected to a PC) and making it directly accessible to the whole world via the internet (even if the webpage requires authentication) makes no sense.
Certainly, you could use this way for a mockup or demo where you need to authenticate directly to some TPM or HSM. But I don't see any commercial use-cases for this yet.
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