Re: [Pyscard-devel] pyscard and PIV cards

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

Hello,

2010/5/7 Wim Lewis <wi...@hh...>:
> I've been working on getting pyscard to work with PIV cards (NIST SP
> 800-73, FIPS 201, that sort of thing). I have most of the command set
> working: logging in, key generation, signing, storing personalization
> data, etc.
>
> I'm posting this both in case there are other people who might be
> interested in this, and because I'd (eventually) like to get the PIV
> code I've written merged back into pyscard. Right now it's a bit messy
> since I didn't really know what I was doing when I started.

Why don't you use a PKCS#11 library like OpenSC [1] to abstract your
PIV card [2]?

If you want a Python interface you can then use pykcs11 [3].

> Also, FWIW, pyscard is working fine on OS X 10.6/SnowLeopard, with
> minimal tweaks (eg removing ppc from the list of architectures to build).

The code in subversion should work without any change.

Bye

[1] http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc
[2] http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/UnitedStatesPIV
[3] http://www.bit4id.org/trac/pykcs11/

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau