OpenSC - Free Smartcard Support
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OpenSC is a free software suite for using ISO-7816 smartcards and USB crypto tokens on Unix, Windows and macOS, supporting standards like ISO-7816, PKCS#11 and PKCS#15. The talk explains how smartcard asymmetric operations work and why smartcard authentication is highly secure, describes OpenSC’s components, supported cards/readers (including German SignTrust and NetKey cards) and planned features, and shows integrations with OpenSSL, Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird, Apache/ModSSL, Samba/PAM, OpenSSH and PuTTY for certificate storage and client authentication.
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