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NAME
opensc - Smart Card library and applications with support for PKCS #15
compatible smart cards and similar security tokens
DESCRIPTION
The opensc project aims to provide a set of libraries and programs for
manipulating smart cards. The opensc utilities and libraries can be
used with ISO 7816-4 compatible cards providing basic, ISO filesystem
manipulation. The primary goal of opensc, however, is to support cryp-
tographic functionality made possible by PKCS #15 compatible cards.
Functionality includes PIN-protected, on-card private and public key
storage, message signing/verification and key generation.
opensc supports PC/SC, CT-API and OpenCT to talk to card terminals.
OTHER FEATURES
PAM library.
OpenSSH integration.
PKCS #11 integration.
SUPPORTED CARDS
As of this writing, opensc is known to support the following PKCS #15
compatible cards.
Finnish FINEID (SetCOS)
Swedish Posten eID (SetCOS)
Schlumberger Cryptoflex 16k and 8k
Gemplus GPK 4000, 8000 and 16000
MioCOS 1.1
TCOS 2.0
RELATED
opensc-tool(1), opensc-explorer(1), opensc-config(1), pkcs15(7),
pkcs15-init(1), pkcs15-tool(1), pkcs15-crypt(1), cryptoflex-tool(1),
http://www.opensc.org
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