Hi all! I just joined the mailing list, as I have a strong interest in the development of smartcard interoperability with Linux. My question to the list is this: I plan to purchase a card reader and some cards to play with and hopefully contribute to the development of PC/SC / PKCS-11 software for the Linux community. >From the research I have done so far, I was thinking of purchasing the Schlumberger "Reflex 62" card reader and a set of cards to use with it... What is the status of the support for the on-board cryptography functions on the Cryptoflex cards? The "Cyberflex Access 16K crypto" cards look like the best deal, as they provide the crypto functions, the Java engine, as well as 16K of RAM... Is documentation on the Schlumberger crypto functions available without buying one of their expensive resource kits? A little about me: (Feel free to stop reading here and move on. I promise I'll only post this once. ;) I work as a Senior Systems Engineer in the Network Security department at Delta Technology / Delta Air Lines. However, my interests in this list and therefore my posts to it are independant of my current employment. I have a strong background in Network Security, and what I would call a fairly solid understanding of computer security issues in general. My cryptography knowledge is strong as far as implementation details and issues, key exchange issues/security, PKI implementation and structure, etc.. but I lack the mathmatics for seriously evaluating actual algorithms / key-generation techniques... (Besides, that's what books like "Applied Cryptography" are for.) :-) Anyway- any info would be helpful, and I apologize if any of this was recently answered on the list.. (Although I didn't see it in the archives.) Thanks, -K.C. Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************
