JDK-8046343 : (smartcardio) CardTerminal.connect('direct') does not work on MacOSX
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: security-libs
  • Sub-Component: javax.smartcardio
  • Affected Version: 7u51
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2014-06-09
  • Updated: 2017-08-22
  • Resolved: 2014-08-07
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7u72Fixed 8u40Fixed 9 b28Fixed
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8058658 - [TEST_BUG] Test sun/security/smartcardio/TestDirect.java fails for Mac OSX 10.9
Description
The method cardTerminal.connect("direct") does not work on Mac. 
On Windows it works as expected. 

This functionality is needed if an applications wants to communicate 
with the terminal but not with the card, e. g. the application wants 
to determine the card terminal features (possibility for secure pin 
entry etc.).
Comments
SQE OK to take customer's escalation easy fix to CPU14_04
11-08-2014
- Fix for Release : 7u72 - Risk Analysis : Low - the fix only affects the platforms where the behavior is currently broken - Testing (done/to-be-done) : A manual test is added to the list of regression tests
11-08-2014
Review: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2014-July/010779.html
07-08-2014
If SCARD_PROTOCOL_RAW is passed as dwPreferredProtocols argument to SCardConnect, we seem to achieve the correct results, even though it contradicts the documentation.
12-06-2014
It had been reported previously that CardTerminal.connect("DIRECT") doesn't work under other *nix platforms too: https://community.oracle.com/thread/1752074?start=0&tstart=0 So this seems to be not a Mac specific issue, but rather an issue of working with pcsc-lite API in general.
12-06-2014