Alessio,
to say that you want a PKCS#11
implementation for a smart card reader doesn't make sense - what you
want is a PKCS#11 implementation for whatever type of smart card is
is that you want to use, assuming you already have the card.
thank you, now my ideas are more clear... so it's not true - as i read
somewhere on internet - that the pkcs11 implementation is given by the
smartcard-reader vendor, it's given by the smartcard vendor... right?
PC/SC is an interface for accessing smart card readers, and Sun Ray
currently provides that via the PC/SC SRCOM Bypass[1]. Typically, the
PKCS#11 implementation for your smart card of choice would use ("sit
on top of") the PC/SC interface to access the card reader.
the problem is that the customer (SRS user) already have it's own
smartcard, and it's NOT a JavaCard (it's a Siemens with CardOS M4).
So if i want to use this card as token to sign, i need they provide me
a pkcs11 unix implementation that sit on top of PC/SC, so that i can
use it on SRS by installing PC/SC-lite. Is that right?
By the way, MUSCLE is the name of a "movement", not really a particular
piece of software. PC/SC-Lite was developed by the MUSCLE community,
but it is not tied to any particular type of smart card. The MUSCLE
community also developed a JavaCard applet ("MuscleCard"), which can
be use on JavaCard for PKI-style crypto. To use that applet, you need
the "libmusclecard" framework, which includes a PKCS#11 implementation.
The libmusclecard framework is no longer being actively developed,
though - most energy is going into OpenSC[2] these days, and work is (or
at least was) underway to add support to OpenSC for the MuscleCard
applet on a JavaCard.
I already took a look at OpenSC-Java project, but it seems its pkcs11
implementation (libopensc-PKCS11-0.3.so) is not working fine on SRS
with PC/SC-lite (and it's not been so easy to build theri pkcs11
shared library on Solaris, since only Windows and Linux are supported)
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