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Limitation of 10 smart card readers with SCardListReaders

October 14, 2021May 31, 2016 by johann.d

Many customers have noticed that the Windows’ PC/SC subsystem is not able to handle more than 10 readers (or slots in case of multi-slot readers). Actually, the SCardListReaders function -the system call to get the list of available PC/SC readers- is limited to 10 readers max. On old versions of Windows it was possible (although … Read more

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