Radovan, If you buy a Reflex 72 reader to use with the Cryptoflex card, to communicate with the Cryptoflex smart card on Linux you will need 1. PC/SC Lite for Unix from http://www.linuxnet.com/middle.html 2. MUSCLE Reflex 72 Driver http://www.linuxnet.com/sourcedrivers.html See http://www.strongsec.com/smartcards/howto/html/SmartCard-Login-HOWTO-2.html for pretty good instructions on how to get everything set up.
On a Windows platform, you can interface the PKCS#11 library that comes with Schlumberger SDK4.1 and download a certificate onto the card. Since Schlumberger doesn't have a Linux version of their PKCS#11 library you can't do this on a Linux platform. I've looked and have not been successful in finding a PKCS#11 interface which runs on Linux and talks to the Cryptoflex smart card - or any smartcard for that matter. The only PKCS#11 library I have found that runs on a Linux platform is gpkcs#11 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpkcs11) and this currently only works with a software token. For the project I'm working on this has forced me to begin designing and developing a "mini-"PKCS#11 library that does just the PKCS#11 stuff necessary for the project which includes generating an RSA key pair, storing a certificate on the card, and hashing and signing data. You may want to consider doing something similar if you need to work on a Linux platform. Of course, the interface that you would need to develop would have to be developed in such a way that it can be added into Netscape as a Cryptographic Module. This is not necessary for my current project. -Shelby Radovan Semancik wrote: > > Hello, > > just a quick question, before I'll spend some money: > > Can I use Schlumberger cryptoflex smart card in Linux for storing X.509 > certificates? > (PKCS#11 interface for netscape) > > What software tools I will need to make it work? > > -- > Ing. Radovan Semancik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Project Manager, Business Global Systems a.s. > *************************************************************** > 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 > *************************************************************** -- Shelby A. Evans Senior Software Engineer Information Security Department BBN Technologies 9861 Broken Land Parkway, Suite 156 Columbia, MD 21046 Phone: 410-312-6993 Fax: 410-312-6931 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************
