The light weight variant is compiled without external dependencies such as openssl or zlib and has a limited set of card drivers and smart card tools. Opensc open source smart card tools and libraries pcsc smart card daemon is used to access smart cards on the linux platform using ccid or proprietary drivers. Yubikey, smart cards, opensc and gnupg are pain in the ass to get working. Its intended to be integrated into opensc mainstream, so is actively mantained and synced with opensc repository. Opensc openscdevel troubles with a gemalto usb token. It is listed as supported on opensc wiki, but opensc is unable to use it. Applications supporting this api, such as mozilla firefox and thunderbird, can use it. The opensctool utility can be used from the command line to perform miscellaneous smart card operations such as getting the card atr or sending arbitrary apdu commands to a card. Opensc has installers for multiple operating systems, including windows, macos, and linux flavors. A driver program for the ccid smart card reader is required to access the smart cards.
For an 64 bit operating system download both, the 32 bit and the 64 bit installer. For a list of all authors and contributors as well as detailed license information see opensc credits. Opensc offers the standard distribution as well as a light weight distribution. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate their use in security applications such as authentication, mail encryption and digital signatures. Opensc is written by an international team of volunteers and is licensed as open source software under the lgpl license version 2. Opendnie is an alternate lgpl implementation, written from scratch based on several documents and forums around dnie. Opensc implements the standard apis to smart cards, e. Opensc windows installer the purpose of the opensc installer is to distribute prebuilt binary components of opensc and subprojects to the enduser computer, manage simple configuration entries like required registry keys and removal of the components. Opensc software which you can download from this website still does not support the spanish ceres cards. The purpose of the opensc installer is to distribute prebuilt binary components of opensc and subprojects to the enduser computer, manage simple configuration entries like required registry keys and removal of the components. Applications supporting this api, such as iceweasel and icedove, can use it.
The opensc tool utility can be used from the command line to perform miscellaneous smart card operations such as getting the card atr or sending arbitrary apdu commands to a card. You have searched for packages that names contain opensc in all suites, all sections, and all architectures. It mainly focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations. It facilitates their use in security applications such as mail encryption, authentication, and digital signature. Found 25 matching packages exact hits package opensc. The following commands are supported at the opensc explorer interactive. Opensc will enable a users piv credential to work with firefox and some signing and encryption applications. Opensc provides a set of libraries and utilities to access smart cards. Opensc minidriver for using smart cards with native windows csp applications like internet explorer. Specify this flag several times to enable debug output in the opensc library.
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