Hello everyone,
I'm just starting to engage myself in the use of SmartCard technology. Now, after reading a couple of documents and searching the web, I found a lot of information but somehow it seems that I'm still lacking something to let it make some coherent sense.
Is there some FAQ or tutorial around with a list of recommended card reading devices and cards? Some sort of quick-start?
What I would like to do:
1) use a SmartCard to authenticate to the OS (which are Win2k, XP and Mac OS X 10.3)
2) access the authentication information from the card in my Java application
3) (optional) store a certificate on my card and use it when sending e-mails.
(I read that OS X tutorial link on the PKCS#11 download page, but honestly needing a Gemplus RAD worries me quite a bit, since, if I understand the developer section in the Gemplus store correctly, it costs $6000 !? )
What I'm not sure about:
a) Do I need a JavaCard-enabled card for point (2) or am I just mixing up designators? ;)
If I understand correctly, it should work with any MuscleCard supported Card using J-MuscleCard?
b) Why is there such a huge difference in costs between a 20$ Gemplus card and a 110$ Cyberflex 32K card?
Primarily I would like to avoid buying some expensive reader/card combination only to find out that
a) it doesn't work
or b) the thing could have been done with much smaller costs
Also I wanted to report that the link to the MuscleCard Applet Loader doesn't work (the domain vrweb.de cannot be found).
I hope that someone will enlighten me a bit :)
Greetings Marcus
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