<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">What would be your usecase?</span><br style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">First of all, do you know of any mainstream enduser devices that provide simultaneous reading of both the chip and magstripe, via the same interface? I expect such devices exist in the ATM OEM industry, but have no idea about the interfaces they provide.</span><br class="inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><span style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div>How would that work? There are no existing standard drivers (except for serial interfaces) for magstripe readers I know of. There is no API in the winscard interface for this (introducing arbitrary SCardReadMagstripe would be as useful as some HSM companies having "standard PKCS#11 modules" with extra C_* functions not described by spec nor implemented in interoperable software).<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 7 May 2016 at 12:31 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <<a href="mailto:dbaryshkov@gmail.com">dbaryshkov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I have been looking for the API to access MagStripe readers for quite<br>
some time. Are there any plans to add<br>
magstripe extension to the PC/SC (or proprietary extension to<br>
pcsc-lite)? It would be extremely useful to<br>
receive such data from hybrid (ICC + stripe) readers.<br>
<br>
--<br>
With best wishes<br>
Dmitry<br>
<br>
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