Iacopo Pecchi ha scritto:
> Hello,
> i want to start the development of an application that read a smart card
> under linux.
> I don't know what library/wrapper to use....perhaps a wrapper PCSC?

Well, there is a list of linux driver here:

http://www.linuxnet.com/sourcedrivers.html

You can find tools and info at the MUSCLE site:

http://www.linuxnet.com/software.html

There is another open source project that may be of help:

http://www.opensc-project.org/

As a starting point, I have to suggest you a good book. I bought this one:

Smart Cards
the developer toolkit
Timothy M. Jurgensen
Scott B. guthery
ISBN 0 13 093730 4

You can find many other books at Amazon's.

If you are/speak italian, as it seems possible from your name, you may
read this one:

programmazione delle smart card
Ugo Chirico
Infomedia edizioni
ISBN 8881500140

(www.infomedia.it)

Or this one:

http://www.bol.it/libri/scheda/ea978888363273.html

> I see that this athena product is linux compatible:
> 
> http://www.athena-scs.com/product.asp?pid=20
> 
> It seems a good reader/writer.
> 
> Could you tell me if this hardware is ok to start writing/reading smart
> card
> and what library/wrapper i have to use to write/read data.

Check the list of drivers at MUSCLE or OpenSC sites. Maybe you would
like to use a USB card reader or even a readerless USB smart card like
Aladdin (http://www.aladdin.com/etoken/usb_device.asp).

BTW: Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) is able to read/write a SC, if the right
driver is present. Have a look at this:

http://www.fsfe.org/en/card

HTH

Alessandro Bottoni
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