Title : virtualsmartcard Authors : Frank Morgner Dominik Oepen Version : 1.0.0 27 Jul 2009 License : See file COPYING Tested Platforms : Linux 2.6 (Debian, Ubuntu, Om 2008) Welcome to virtualsmartcard. The purpose of virtualsmartcard is to emulate a smartcard and make it accessible through PCSC. Currently the virtual smartcard supports almost all commands of ISO-7816 including secure messaging. Besides a plain ISO-7816 smartcard it is also possible to emulate a German ePass (only basic access control) and a rudimentary Cryptoflex smartcard. The virtual smartcard communicates with the virtual smartcard driver through a socket on port 35963. The file utils.py was taken from Henryk Plötz's cyberflex-shell. INSTALLATION ------------ See file INSTALL. RUNNING virtualsmartcard ------------------------ First you need to make sure that pcscd loads the virtual smartcard driver. You might run "update-reader.conf" to update pcscd's configuration file. Then "pcscd -f -d" should say something like readerfactory.c:1024:RFInitializeReader() Attempting startup of Virtual PCD 00 00 using /usr/lib/pcsc/drivers/serial/libvpcd.so Now you can run "virtualsmartcard" which connects to the virtual reader. The command "virtualsmartcard --help" gives an overview about the command line options. You should now be able to access the virtual smartcard through the system's PC/SC API. You can use the opensc-explorer or pcsc_scan to test that. QUESTIONS --------- For questions, please use http://sourceforge.net/projects/vsmartcard/support