Hello, I would like to announce the first BETA version of the MUSCLE Virtual Card Edge developers kit available under the Applet Exchange at: http://www.linuxnet.com under Software.
This developer's kit gives you the applet class files to load the virtual card applet on JavaCard 2.1 compliant VISA OP smartcards. It also includes a client side API for developing smartcard applications. It has been tested on Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS 10.1. With this package you can develop applications for any multi-application smartcard which follows the included standard in the developer's kit or support legacy applications under this simple API. The purpose of this is to try and establish a standard for communicating to multi-application smartcards. It would be difficult to support every legacy smartcard but with this technology we can quickly support the growing population of Java and multi-application smartcards. The applet currently supports: On board key generation for RSA in CRT or exponent/modulus form. RSA, DSA, 3DES, DES Object creation, deletion, read, write External authentication PIN management, verification, creation, change The applet supports a key loading mechanism enabling the support of key sizes up to 64k bits in length. Key management..... In fact you can develop applications to use this API in less than 10 lines of code. The kit comes complete with applet specification documentation and API documentation in PDF format. It has been tested with ssh, openssl, pam, and others. The client side API will accomidate legacy cards which can be plugged in future releases of ssp-lite to this new API. I will also have some updated drivers to present early next week. Best Regards, Dave *************************************************************** Unix Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/ To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe sclinux ***************************************************************
