I'm looking into beeing able to use the Finnish Electronic Identity card
(FINEID) in Linux. This card is a Setec (www.setec.fi They also provide EMV
cards to VISA, etc.) 16kb smart card which runs SetCOS 4 as its OS and
contains an crypto processor on chip. The certificates stored into the card
are PKCS#15 profiled X.509v3 certificates.
I have a selection of readers at my disposal i.e. Setec SetCAD 203 (serial)
Utimaco Desktop USB, Utimaco PCMCIA 4000 and an ancient Philips PE122. Which
one of these card readers are best supported under Linux currently? What
components are needed for a reader to operate under Linux - obviously a
PC/SC library and a hardware driver (is it a kernel module?) - what else?
I'm aiming to be able to use the certificates for at least client
authentication onto websites using either Konqueror 2.2.2, Netscape
Navigator 4.78/6.2 or Mozilla. Preferably I'd like to be able to compose and
receive S/MIME e-mail and authenticate to my Linux system with the SC. Is
this even remotely possible?
I'm running currently Debian woody on one machine, Slackware 8.0 on another
one and LFS 3.0 on my development/test machine. Which one would be the
prefered distro to begin building SC support for?
Yours Sincerely,
Raymond Causton
[rc (at) iki.fi]
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