Reading smartcard from chrome after NPAPI drop

Question

This chromium blog states Chrome is dropping NPAPI for good now.

In my current project I need to access a Belgian E-ID card to get data (not authentication).
All documentation and examples I found are using Java plugins. This will become imposible in the future.

Does anybody have an idea how to approach this?

Answer 1

Native Messaging is probably what you'll need to use. The FireBreath team is working on some possibilities for extending support to allow using it, but nothing we can definitively announce yet.