Hello,
Sorry i said something wrong in my previous message, even if javacard 3.0 is
available , there are actually no compatible's cards to buy for the moment,
and i have no more information about this...
we will continue our researches on cryptos apis, PCKS, java applet and
scardsoft..
sorry



jose85 wrote:
> 
> Ok thanks a lot Andreas Jellinghaus-2 , that's probably what we will do !
> we've seen too a soft : http://www.scardsoft.com/main.php3?Theme=SCardX ,
> the javascript sources code are available, pherhaps it's possible to
> modify only the client side for our project 
> And also the platform javacard 3.0 will be soon available with an update
> API , new packages : http ,tls,ssl...
> that can interest us...
> Gemalto has already a major release available of this javacard 3.0 : 
> http://developer.gemalto.com/home/java-card-3/gemalto-toolkit.html
> we will make first some researches on this new release...
> 
> 
> 
> Andreas Jellinghaus-2 wrote:
>> 
>> if you want web connections authenticated with a smart card,
>> the best way is usualy
>> 1.) use an ssl server
>> 2.) use the option to authenticate to that ssl server using a
>>     client certificate (with the private key)
>> 3.) find a way so that the private key is stored on a smart
>>     card and is not read from the card, but rather the card
>>     is signed to sign those bytes used in the ssl client
>>     authentication.
>> 
>> step 1 and 2 are easy to implement.
>> 
>> but for step 3 you usualy use some ssl or https library on
>> the client side to access the server. that library needs
>> to be able to use smart cards. if the library doesn't allow
>> that, pick a different library.
>> 
>> I only know programming in c, there you have the netscape
>> libraries that allow this (I guess, since firefox can do this),
>> and the openssl library for ssl connections can do that too
>> (using an "engine" and that engine can be "engine_pkcs11"
>> which can use "opensc-pkcs11.so" or any other pkcs#11 module
>> to talk to a smart card).
>> 
>> I'm sure there are java libraries / packages out there that
>> have similiar functionality. check out the opensc-java project,
>> maybe the authors can help you (and I think it works not only
>> with opensc, but other pkcs#11 modules as well).
>> 
>> good luck!
>> 
>> Andreas
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> 
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