Supporting fixed length keypad input
NIIBE Yutaka
gniibe at fsij.org
Fri Feb 1 00:57:20 CET 2013
On 2013-01-15 at 11:36 +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> To summarize discussion, I'd like to propose the following for pinpad
> input.
>
> * Default is variable length pinpad input when reader supports the
> feature.
>
> * Use pinentry by keyboard on host PC, when reader doesn't supports
> the feature (including reader supports pinpad input but requires
> fixed length input).
>
> * Only when a user wants to do special thing, he needs to specify
> this. Special cases are:
>
> (1) Use pinentry by keyboard even with pinpad reader.
> (for cases when PIN has characters other than digits.)
>
> (2) Use fixed length input.
Now, in scd-work branch, it is implemented in this way.
I'd like to merge scd-work branch to master. It will be backported
to 2.0 branch, too.
After that, I will do function name changes for keypad -> pinpad.
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