Hello, On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 22:05, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE <[email protected]> wrote: > Le jeudi 12 avril 2012 à 14:33 +0800, [email protected] a écrit : >> We are using redhat 5.7and gemalto 64k v2c smartcard.Please help us in >> doing the integration of smartcard with Linux machine.We have tried >> out by using opensc tool.But after executing 'opensc-tool -n' its >> showing JavaCard (without supported applet).Means card is not >> supported. Can you please suggest any other way to integratte this >> card to linux machine > > If you would like a well-supported card, I suggest your try an OpenSC > supported card, not a Java card. Of course some people really like Java > cards and opinion differ.
The reasons to like JavaCard (in theory) is the ability to: a) run open source code on/in the card as well, not only on the host side b) being able to replace/choose the underlying card, be it for performance or capabilities reason or just replacing the card vendor when in need In practice the only common open source applet, MuscleApplet, is far from perfect for the on-card code, because: a) it is in practice proprietary b) it is not really maintained c) unrelated to fact that it has code in OpenSC to support the card, it has no resemblance with IOS7816-4/8/15, which OpenSC is tailored towards. Which makes it an awkward target in OpenSC. Having a standards-compliant open source applet would be a huge benefit, both for the ecosystem as well as OpenSC. But developing this requires quite a lot of different resources (time, money, motivation etc) and to date noone has shown interest in this. Martin _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
