SmartCard library and applications with support for PKCS #15 compatible cards

libopensc is a library for accessing SmartCard devices. It is also the core library of the OpenSC project.

Basic functionality (e.g. SELECT FILE, READ BINARY) should work on any ISO 7816-4 compatible SmartCard. Encryption and decryption using private keys on the SmartCard is possible with PKCS #15 compatible cards, such as the FINEID (Finnish Electronic IDentity) card.

The base platforms are Linux and MacOS X; some parts have been ported to Windows.

Latest news

November 23rd 2005

• Released a new stable version Libp11 0.2.1. Small bugfixes: export PKCS11_get_rsa_method for engine_pkcs11, small documentation fixes, fix one warning in examples/getrandom.c
• Released a new stable version Engine_pkcs11 0.1.3. Small bugfixes: use PKCS11_get_rsa_method from libp11 (fix windows compile), fix many bugs in slot/key parsing. Now depends on libp11 >= 0.2.1.

December 24th 2004

Belgium is using OpenSC.

The pkcs11 lib for Belgian EID cards is based on OpenSC. We will try to merge those changes into OpenSC, but it will take a while.

For now the complete source code is available or you can download the binaries.

Thanks to Belgium for donating code to the OpenSC project!

• Released a new stable version OpenSC 0.9.4. Check out the announcement for more information.
• Also released a new stable version OpenCT 0.6.2. Check out the announcement for more information.

Authors

• Juha Yrjölä
• Timo Teräs
• Antti Tapaninen
• Olaf Kirch
• Stef Hoeben
• Andreas Jellinghaus
• Nils Larsch
• Martin Paljak