Hello Daniel,
Thanks for your reply but I think you may have mis-understood my question a
little.
The point of my question is whether OCF's SignatureCardService will allow my
application to gain access to the cryptographic facilities of ANY third
party smart card that was personalised using the PKCS#11 API.
If the SignatureCardService does not provide this capability then my next
question would be.....is it possible to write a generic CardService to
fulfil my requirements ?
Thanks
Alan
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> Hi Alan,
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> if I understand you correctly, PKCS#11 is used for personalisation of your
> smart cards. So your cards have a file system with e.g.
> X.509-certificates,
> some keys for signing, encryption,... and possibly a key generation
> feature.
> OCF provides CardService interfaces for most of these features, so the way
> to go is:
> 1) Implement the interfaces needed.
> 2) Write a CardServiceFactory.
> You need to know the APDU values for your card.
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> IMHO the answer is YES. Please note that you'll need to implement more
> than the SignatureCardService in order to support the full functionality
> of your smart card.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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> Dear All,
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> Yet another plea for help from another newcomer !
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> Recently I have been investigating OpenCard and the OCF for my company.
> After presenting my initial report I was asked the following question:
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> A third party (Company X) issues cryptographic smart cards using its own
> issuing s/w and this s/w uses a PKCS#11 API to write to these cards. Then
> we
> (Company Y) produce an application that communicates to smart cards using
> the OCF. Can we use OCF's SignatureCardService to access the cryptographic
> functions of the cards issued by Compnay X?
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> This is a simple but fundamental question that has been put to me and I
> have
> not seen a clear YES or NO answer yet. Can anyone help?
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> Thanks in advance
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> Alan S. Alie
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