I've been using JCOP41 cards based on the NXP chip with reasonable results. The card manager is global platform compliant. usasmartcard.com has them. The 41 cards have DES, RSA and EC algorithms on them.
It took me a while to get the incantations correct, but I'm using GPShell to load the cards, JavaCard 2.2.1 and JDK1.5 to build the musclecard applet, and the 2.0 version of the applet for access to the EC algorithms. I'm in the process of updating the PKCS11 musclecard lib to deal with the updated libraries and plugin. At 04:53 6/18/2007, Christophe Gudin wrote: >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... > >_______________________________________________ >Muscle mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
