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Viktor Tarasov edited this page Dec 11, 2012 · 20 revisions

OpenSC – tools and libraries for smart cards

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 PKCS#11 API so applications supporting this API (such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird) can use it. On the card OpenSC implements the PKCS#15 standard and aims to be compatible with every software/card that does so, too.

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 AuthorsAndCredits.

If you are new to smart cards, see OverView and FrequentlyAskedQuestions pages. Always check SecurityAdvisories.

The latest stable version of OpenSC is 0.12.2 (released on 17.07.2011, [milestone:0.12.2 milestone]). See DownloadRelease for detailed information.

DeveloperInformation is available for those who want to build smart card capable applications. Developers who want to GetInvolved with OpenSC are needed as well.

News

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: OpenSC will be at FOSDEM 2012!
  • 14.07.2011: OpenSC 0.12.2 is available. DownloadRelease
  • 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. DownloadRelease
  • 14.04.2011: NightlyBuilds 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.
  • A section with CommercialOffers has been added to the wiki. Companies offering products and services that work with OpenSC can now be found from one place.

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?

Quick links

  • Download
  • ApplicationSupport – list of applications with smart card support

Misc

  • build OpenSC build using cross compiler
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