OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to work with smart cards. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate their use in security applications such as authentication, mail encryption and digital signatures. OpenSC implements the PKCS#11 API so applications supporting this API (such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird) can use it. On the card OpenSC implements the PKCS#15 standard and aims to be compatible with every software/card that does so, too.
OpenSC is written by an international team of volunteers and is licensed as Open Source software under the LGPL license version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a list of all authors and contributors as well as detailed license information see AuthorsAndCredits.
If you are new to smart cards, see OverView and FrequentlyAskedQuestions pages. Always check SecurityAdvisories.
The latest stable version of OpenSC is 0.12.2 ( released on 17.07.2011, milestone). See DownloadRelease for detailed information.
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Windows (x86) installer (see WindowsInstaller for more information)
Windows (x64) installer
Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 installer (see MacInstaller for more information)
Mac OS X 10.5 installer
Before you GetStarted with using OpenSC be sure to check the SupportedHardware list as typical smart cards are incompatible with all other smart cards and come with no public documentation.
DeveloperInformation is available for those who want to build smart card capable applications. Developers who want to GetInvolved with OpenSC are needed as well.
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