Greetings,

I'm trying to determine what a good choice for a USB contactless card reader 
and card may be for a project I'm working on.  The project requires that the 
reader be supported by a system running embedded linux and I'm having 
difficulty trying to understand what readers and cards may be supported and by 
what layer of software.  I've been reading over information about PC/SC Lite, 
OpenSC, OpenCT, and OCF and am still trying to grasp how they all fit together 
or compare. 

Is PC/SC Lite a competing framework to OpenSC+OpenCT?   If I understand 
correctly OpenCT is a driver frameworks that is compatible with both PC/SC Lite 
and OpenSC and that PC/SC Lite and OpenSC represent middleware that would 
support applications and cards?

In looking at the pcsc-lite CCID driver it would appear that perhaps 
contactless support does not exist for all the readers listed that are 
contactless - is this something thats not within the CCID spec or is that 
driver just not implementing all of the spec?

Can anyone recommend a USB contactless reader that is supported by pcsc-lite or 
openct?  Can anyone recommend a contactless card that is supported?

The other thing I'm trying to understand is what utils/API I would use to 
access information read from a card.  Ultimately I need to write an application 
that handles an event when a card is read and can access the data on the card.

Thanks for any assistance - as you can see I'm perhaps pretty confused by the 
different application layers and options out there and need some clarification.

Tim
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