On 5/22/05, Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all,
Hello, > As we have Werner Koch (author of GnuPG) as member of FSFE, we also > felt it would be a good idea to use that knowledge to promote the > awareness for privacy and security by giving each fellow an OpenPGP > SmartCard, nicely designed and personalised with the capability of > having keys generated on the card signed by FSFE. Werner already sent me a GnuPG card last year but it would be nice to have a card with keys signed by the FSFE :-) > Is there _any_ PCMCIA SmartCard reader that is actually working with a > recent kernel (so 2.6.x) and has a Free Software only driver that > allows to use the OpenPGP card with GnuPG? Yes. Gemplus has the GemPC Card [1] smart card reader. Gemplus officialy support GNU/Linux with a driver based on my LGPL CCID driver [2]. The GemPC Card is "just" a PCMCIA-serial bridge and a GemPC Twin serial smart card reader. So the device is seen as a (new) serial port and the driver is the same as for the GemPC serial reader. My page [2] does not yet include support for the GemPC Card because I would like to add serial hotplug support in pcsc-lite first. The limitation you have now is that you need to (re)start pcscd after inserting the reader or keep the reader always inserted. You can buy the reader online [3] for 58.00 Euros or 78 US$. Or try to find cheaper in a local reseller. Bye, [1] http://support.gemplus.com/gemdownload/readers/drivers.aspx?prodid=17 [2] http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html [3] http://store.gemplus.com/ -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau For private mail use [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not "big brother" Google _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
