What is PC/SC
The Interoperability Specification for ICCs and Personal Computer Systems (PC/SC) has been developed to ease the introduction of smart cards into the world of PCs. The main advantage of PC/SC is that applications do not have to be aware of the details regarding the smart card reader in order to communicate with the smart card. Moreover, the application can function with any reader complying with the PC/SC standard.
The PC/SC Workgroup is a committee that is composed mainly of smart card and computer manufacturers. Microsoft has played an important role in the elaboration of these standards, due to the fact that the Windows platforms are the only ones which offer a smart card resource manager.
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