Hi Pavel, First what types of cards do you want? - memory card - smart card (card with microchip) - cards supporting many applications : Java Card, Multos - ...
For which usage do you want these cards? - Authentication - Development - ... Perhaps there already exists a solution/product that meet your requirements. Then in Europe most of the cards are certified using Common Criteria (CC or ISO 15408) and not ITSEC. CC are widely recognized in the world (more than ITSEC) [2]. You can look the list [1] of the products certified by the DCSSI (the french certification body). You can also look the products certified by the other certification body in Europe (BSI, ...). You can get the list of them at the end of [1]. There are differents manufacturers that have certified card such as Axalto, Oberthur, ... If you decide to buy Gemplus products in small quantities, I recommend you do not buy them to their french retailer (the NIS company) because often they sell you the cards without documentation and keys to use them... even if you contact them after! (I have experimented this few times and I have still 10 cards on my desk that I can not use). Your cards will be supported by linux at least at ISO7816-4 level (APDU level) using PC/SC Lite [3]. (except if you choose memory card) Then depending of the card you will choose and what you want to do with it there may be supported at application level using the Muscle framework [4] or OpenSC [5] or other framework. [1] http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/confidence/certificats.html [2] http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/confidence/mra.html [3] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pcsclite/ [4] http://www.linuxnet.com/ [5] http://www.opensc.org/ Regards, -- Damien Sauveron ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
