The Smart Card Subsystem component is based on Personal Computer/Smart Card (PC/SC) consortium standards and consists of the following parts:
This component manages access to readers and smart cards. To manage these resources, it performs the following three functions:
The Resource Manager component also exposes a subset of the Microsoft Win32-based application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide applications with access to these functions.
This component allows simple smart card-aware applications to access a card and reader with minimum coding.
There are no configuration requirements for this component.
For more information about the Smart Card Subsystem component, see this Microsoft Web site.
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