Yeap, I knew that I forget someting - David Cross announced on public.security.crypto newsgroup release of the Smart Card Base Cryptographic Service Provider as free download (also available via Windows Update): Writing a Smart Card CSP has not been trivial. This has been addressed by splitting the CSP architecture to a Base CSP and Card Module architecture. The Base CSP is provided by Microsoft as a part of the platform (with this Base CSP release). Card Module is a interface supported by Microsoft...
Well, period of silence on this blog ended. Unfortunately I couldn't post for last three months for many reasons and I'm sorry for it :(( In this post I'll try to summarize what interesting things happened in security from my point of view (actually Valery already mentioned most of them in his blog): Peter Gutmann updated his “Godzilla crypto and security“ tutorial with excellent quote on current state of laws in Russia: “The severity of Russian law is compensated for by it’s...