Smart Card Subsystem Component Description

The Smart Card Subsystem component is based on Personal Computer/Smart Card (PC/SC) consortium standards and consists of the following sub-components:

The Resource Manager

This component manages access to readers and smart cards. To manage these resources, it performs the following three functions:

• Identifies and tracks resources.
• Allocates readers and resources across multiple applications.
• Supports transaction primitives for accessing services available on a given card.

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.

A Card/Reader Selection UI

This component allows simple smart card-aware applications to access a card and reader with minimum coding.

Component Configuration

There are no configuration requirements for this component.

For More Information

For more information about the Smart Card Subsystem component, see this Microsoft Web site.