Hi,

We'll see what the PCSClite maintainer has to say, but if I were him, I
would say that

- pcsc supports READERS, not cards. So if a driver sees your token, then the
job of pcsclite is done. Actual smart functionnality of portable objects (be
them tokens or cards) is the responsibility of other projects, possibly
openSC or others.

- a CARD vendor list is not the "business" of pcsclite. Cards that support
ISO7816 will work in ISO7816 readers supported by pcsclite. But you need
other projects to really use the cards.

A nice smart card vendor for small quantities is SmartCardFocus
http://www.smartcardfocus.com/
But I don't known which card you want.

For both points, you should check OpenSC, as mentioned by the cross post
from Martin.

Regards,
Seb

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Luke S Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> so the thing is, whenever I see a HOWTO or other document it seems it's
> for a smartcard that is no longer available (or never was available
> in quantities I can afford.)  I ask in the usual sysadmin places and
> I get hand-wavy responses.  Apparently some people have it working,
> but with cards I can't buy.   Most people use the time based OTP tokens
> that require you to type in some randomly generated password.
>
> Are smartcards that work (for me, 'work' means it allows me to
> authenticate via ssh without exposing my private key)
> available, and if so, from whom?
>
>
>
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