Using ComSign smart card

[Ori Idan]

Thank you Hetz.
>From what you wrote and what I looked it really seems we should not have any
problems with the hardware.
Tehila says something regarding using Firefox in this document:
http://www.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/864BC531-DA34-4007-8EA9-39FAEA9607CE/0/Firefox.doc

>From reading this document it seems we can use it under Linux although they
say Linux not yet supported.
Can someone read it and maybe point out some other problems I have
overlooked?

-- 
Ori Idan


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, finished! (at least in terms of hardware "research")
>
> The Tehila project suggest 5 card readers which are "supported" by them
> (well, someone will support, maybe, Tehila doesn't know how to support
> people), you can see the list here:
> http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/smartCard/business/businessStart/
>
> <http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/smartCard/business/businessStart/>I won't look
> at the serial and PCMCIA solutions cause everyone got USB these days, so
> we're left with 3 cards:
>
> 1. Athena ASE llle USB - this card is fully supported under Linux. You can
> download it's driver (fully open source), run configure, make, make install
> and thats it. I think it's already included on some recent distribution, but
> even if it's not, it takes 1 minute to compile & install.
> 2. SCM SCR3310 - This card uses a *binary only* library (scmccid) which it
> has some hard-coded library path inside it (some developers should be
> shot!). Avoid this card if you prefer not to mess with binary only stuff.
> Please note: it's not binary only kernel driver, only user level shared
> library.
> 3. GemPlus GemPC Twin - This one is the nicest. You don't need any special
> drivers. If you're distribution is pretty modern, it should have the driver
> for it inside the kernel and it would be auto recognize it when you connect
> it to your machine.
>
> Amos - I assume that OS X has PC/SC support inside, so you should have out
> of the box support on your Mac on 1 and 3. Funny thing: Number 2 driver got
> this on it's Info.plist file:
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "
> http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>
> Thats - for the kernel stuff. User level stuff - that I need to research a
> bit...
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
> 2010/11/14 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
>
> How is the market share of Apple in Israel these days? Their distrobutors
>> should be interested in this issue as well.
>>
>> On 15/11/2010 7:14 AM, "Ori Idan" <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:
>>
>> No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me.
>> I did this only to let them know that people use other operating systems.
>> I hope that other people will do that too.
>> I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know
>> manufacturers see for example:
>> http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4
>>
>> --
>> Ori Idan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Ori,
>> >
>> > You really...
>>
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