Hello Everyone,

I'm having a little trouble to set up a smart card environment which is
totally opensource. My goal is to have a cryptographic sc which can store
one or preferably two or three  certificates and perform basic rsa
operations. The card should  be used for the key generation, authentication
and signing. Thus I believe a PKCS11 module would be great and easy to use
for this kind of usage.

I've been testing a few cards lately, (Cyberflex, Cryptoflex and
GemSafeXpresso) to find after a few hours of testing that they require
proprietary SDK's in the case of the javacards. The Cryptoflex worked fine
with the opensc project, but I just heared Gemalto is planning on
discontinuing them this summer.

Does anyone know about a card that is really "open" without the CodeShield
protection or anything else that forces the use of a proprietary SDK which I
could use with the Muscle Framework (or eventually with the opensc project).

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I'm starting to feel that the
smart-card industry is pretty hostile to open source.

Best Regards,

Christophe Gudin.

PS: I'm cross-posting this message on the opensc mailing list, as their
non-java cards project also has a PKCS11 module...
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