> Reinoud - A few days ago, you had mentioned that your company has
> developed a similar stuff. Is it available for free. Can you enlighten us?
we developed a JCA/JCE provider that uses smart cards. it is based on
OpenCard to access smart cards. for development we used GPK cards.
unfortunately the OpenCard drivers for GPK are in alpha state for half an
year now and haven't changed in this period. furthermore these drivers do
not support yet protecting a signature key with a PIN.
i presented this work at the GDC2000, you can read the paper
http://www.iaik.at/IAIK_LIT/papers/kscheibelhofer/OC_JCA.pdf.
but we wanted to wait until the drivers it is based on are at least in a
beta state and support this PIN protection. without PIN protection it is not
a very serious signature application.
i tried to contact the people that are responsible for GPK OpenCard drivers
serveral times, but i never got no answer. perhaps we will try to implement
a suitable JavaCard applet. so we would not depend on card drivers.
unfortunately, the support for OpenCard CardServices for signature cards is
very bad in general. there is the reference implementation for MFC cards.
but for MFC cards there is no software available to initialize and
personalize them (the software exists, but IBM does not give it away any
longer and Comcard is not allowed).
switching to crypto JavaCards would perhaps solve many problems for us.
regards
Karl Scheibelhofer
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Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK)
at Technical University of Graz, Austria, http://www.iaik.at
Phone: (+43) (316) 873-5540
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> information on OpenCard---binaries, source code, documents.
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