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OpenSC Release 0.8.1
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We are pleased to announce the availability of OpenSC 0.8.1.
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OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to access smart
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cards. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations,
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and facilitate their use in security applications such as mail encryption,
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authentication, and digital signature.
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OpenSC can be used with the following applications and libraries:
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- Netscape Communicator and Mozilla (through its PKCS#11 module),
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for secure email (SMIME) and SSL authentication
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- OpenSSH, for user authentication
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- FreeSWAN, for authentication and key management
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- OpenSSL, for key and certificate storage, key generation and
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signing of certificate requests
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- GNUpg 1.9 (experimental), for key storage
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- Smart card login, through a PAM module
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- Using the included utilities, to perform RSA decryption and
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digitial signing
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OpenSC is capable of personalizing various types of smart cards, but
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also works with personalized cards such as the Finnish FINEID.
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OpenSC can currently be used on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It supports
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PC/SC, CTAPI and OpenCT to talk to card terminals.
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Supported Hardware
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The following card operating systems are supported at the moment (where
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read-only means that personalized cards can be used, but OpenSC does not
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provide personalization support for these).
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- Gemplus GPK cards (except Gemsafe)
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- Schlumberger Cryptoflex
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- CardOS/M4 (Aladdin eToken PRO, etc)
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- Starcos SPK (read-only)
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- Micardo (read-only)
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- MioCOS (read-only)
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- Setcos (read-only)
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- TCOS (read-only)
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Note that Java cards are not supported at the moment.
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Download
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Source code is available from http://www.opensc.org/
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A binary package for Windows is available as well.
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Mailing List
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There is a mailing list (opensc-devel) for users and developers of
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OpenSC. For subscription instructions, please visit http://www.opensc.org.
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