Cypherpunks Tonga announces yet another version of SIO/STEST, the universal smartcard software. Quick summary of changes: - Philips, Gemplus, and Schlumberger reader support added - Chipknip (IEP) specific commands added - new internal commands - infrastructure for implementing card specific commands has been added (which the chipknip commands are built on top of) At this point, we need others to start writing tables to support additional cards. If you have an ISO7816 compatible smartcard with programmer reference manual and minimal C knowledge, you can contribute to the project. Full source is at https://www.cypherpunks.to/scard/stest_download.php -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
Cypherpunks Tonga announces yet another version of SIO/STEST, the universal smartcard software.
Quick summary of changes: - Philips, Gemplus, and Schlumberger reader support added - Chipknip (IEP) specific commands added - new internal commands - infrastructure for implementing card specific commands has been added (which the chipknip commands are built on top of)
At this point, we need others to start writing tables to support additional cards. If you have an ISO7816 compatible smartcard with programmer reference manual and minimal C knowledge, you can contribute to the project.
What kind of cash outlay would I be looking at for doing smartcard development? What do the needed parts run? Any recomendations on suppliers? Places to avoid?
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On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Alan wrote:
What kind of cash outlay would I be looking at for doing smartcard development? What do the needed parts run? Any recomendations on suppliers? Places to avoid?
You can get started for ~$100. You need: o Smartcard reader. You can sodder one yourself from the specs we have online, or you can buy one of the commercial reader we support. [To all of you with commmercial readers we don't already support; how about writing a table for our reader abstraction layer]? We currently support the home-built Dumb Mouse, Schlumberger, Gemplus, and Phillips readers. Either one of these outfits will sell you one of their readers for ~$100. They are all equally capable. It doesn't matter which one you get. The Gemplus reader looks the coolest. Email me if you need a contact address. o ISO7816-[3,4] -3 is online, -4 isn't yet, pending a good copy that can be scanned. But you can get by with just 7816-3. I am. o A smartcard, ideally with programmer reference manual. Gemplus will send you their reference in PDF and a sample GPK4000 (sig only) for free. Schlumberger will sell you 4 CryptoFlex cards for $80, but requires an NDA for the manual. Bull is between card revisions and doesn't really have any intresting crypto cards at the moment. Same with Siemens. If your interst is more towards cash cards, we already have support for Chipknip (Proton). Beyond that, you are on your own. But if it speaks ISO7816, you can write an STEST table for it. In fact, you can write the table from the manual without ever touching a card. But this is less gratifying. Still, we would be thankful for any and all tables added to STEST. More info (the site needs updating) is at https://www.cypherpunks.to/scard/ -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"
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