Architectures to access Smart Card from a generic browser? Or: How to bridge the gap from browser to PC/SC stack?
The fact is that browsers can’t talk to (cryptographic) smart cards for other purposes than establishing SSL. You shall need additional code, executed by the browser, to access smart cards. There are tens of custom and proprietary plugins (using all three options you mentioned) for various purposes (signing being the most popular, I guess) built … Read more