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
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See file INSTALL.
RUNNING virtualsmartcard
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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
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For questions, please email us at:
Frank Morgner <morgner@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Dominik Oepen <oepen@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
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