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 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.
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Finnish FINEID (SetCOS)
Swedish Posten eID (SetCOS)
Schlumberger Cryptoflex 16k and 8k
Gemplus GPK 4000, 8000 and 16000
MioCOS 1.1
TCOS 2.0
SEE ALSO
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
AUTHOR
This manpage was contributed by Joe Phillips <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).