Hi Damien,
<quote sender="Damien Sauveron">
> >I couldn't find any
> > routine to write data to the smartcard. Can someone
> > please give me a pointer as to how I can store, say
> > a pin, to the smartcard? If you have sample source
> > code, that would be cool. I really appreciate it.
> In the reality the reader don't write the data on the smart card! The reader send a
> command (called an APDU command) to the smart card. The OS of the smart card
> interprets this command and handle it. If this is a writing command, the OS write,
> etc.
Ah, this is so interesting. So it is the APDU commands that
instructs the card to perform an action.
> The command for doing that you want is dependent to the smart card you choose and
> it's OS.
> You can look for Java Card which are smart cards understanding programs in Java Card
> (a subset of Java). Perhaps you can also just want to use memory card? There are not
> supported by PC/SC Lite. For them look for CT-API and a reader supporting this API.
I am actually looking at smartcards from Gemplus, and the
programming language that I have to use is C because of the
speed, and it is available in just any other Linux distributions.
Are there any recommendations of smartcards that I can use?
> > Also, does anyone used ACS smart card readers in Linux
> > before? Particularly the AC{T,R{20,30},F} readers?
> > Any issues? I am comtemplating to get a smart card
> > reader for my development but I do hope to get one
> > that works, so I would love to hear feedbacks from
> > anyone of you please.
> The ACS serial seems supported on linux see [2].
> For the problem of support with the ACS see the mailing list [3] and the support of
> ACS!
>
> I have many differents readers and ofen I use the GemPC410 as soon as the drivers of
> my other readers have some bugs.
Thank you for your recommendation. GemPC410. I got to go
find out on this one.
Eugene
> [1] http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/
> [2] http://www.linuxnet.com/sourcedrivers.html
> [3] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dev/muscle/
>
> Regards,
>
> Damien Sauveron
>
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