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OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to work with smart cards. 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 implements the standard APIs to smart cards, e.g. PKCS#11 API, Windows’ Smart Card Minidriver and macOS Tokend.

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The latest stable version is OpenSC 0.18.0 released on 16.05.2018. It is available as

Old Releases

Nightly build

The latest source code is available through GitHub. Nightly builds for Windows are available as build artifact on AppVeyor. Pick one of the builds and select Artifacts to download the MSI.

News

  • 16.05.2018: OpenSC 0.18.0 is available.
  • 18.07.2017: OpenSC 0.17.0 is available.
  • 03.06.2016: OpenSC 0.16.0 is available.
  • 16.05.2015: OpenSC 0.15.0 is available.
  • 30.06.2014: OpenSC 0.14.0 is available.
  • 04.12.2012: OpenSC 0.13.0 is available.
  • 14.07.2011: OpenSC 0.12.2 is available.
  • 09.06.2011: a talk covering OpenSC, open source and eID in Europe on EEMA eID Management Conference
  • 18.04.2011: OpenSC 0.12.1 is available.
  • 14.04.2011: Nightly builds are available for Windows and Mac OS X users.
  • 05.02.2011: OpenSC was at FOSDEM 2011.
  • 17.12.2010 SECURITY: (CVE-2010-4523) A rogue smart card, specially crafted for this purpose, can be used to potentially execute arbitrary code if inserted to a local machine. See SecurityAdvisories.

Sub-projects

OpenSC effort consists of various sub-projects that can be used independently as well, without OpenSC:

  • engine_pkcs11 is an OpenSSL engine to use PKCS#11 providers, either from command line or from applications
  • libp11 is a small C wrapper library for working with PKCS#11 modules.
  • pkcs11-helper eases working with PKCS#11 modules, by implementing common tasks.
  • PAM-PKCS#11 implements various authentication methods
  • pam_p11 is a small and simple PAM module for local authentication
  • OpenCT implements a reader driver interface for various non-standard readers on Linux, meant to be used with OpenSC.
  • OpenSC-Java is a Java<—>OpenSC bridge?

Developer Information

License

OpenSC is written by an international team of volunteers and is licensed as Open Source software under the LGPL license version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a list of all authors and contributors as well as detailed license information see OpenSC-Credits.

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