opensc7

Overview

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 cryptographic 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