Hi all, I've started a new opensc-java subproject, which I initiated due to the following reasons:
1) The PKCS#11 interface together with opensc does not allow to implement CA-functionality with smart cards. (No possibility to present two PIN simultaneously and many other problems...) 2) Even with plain opensc, operating a smart-card CA is very painful, because you need openssl, which does provide felible CA-tools, and most smrt-card manufacturers are providing APDU-scripts to initilialize smart cards outside the opensc-framework before you are in business 3) JAVA-1.6 introduced a smartcardio-API, which works out of-the-box on all platforms. Summing all these shortcomings up, I decided to implement a PKCS#15 library in JAVA, including a JCE-provider and an APDU-scripting framework with the first steps available under: http://www.opensc-project.org/svn/opensc-java/trunk/pkcs15/ Currently, I can read Siemens CardOS 4.3b cards, parse all relevant ASN.1 objects, while the implementation of the whole PKCS#15-ASN.1 objects should be a strightforward extension of the surrent ASN.1 framework due to the fact, that I use bouncycastle as the basic JCE-provider, which has support for many algorithm including ECDSA and many others, which are part of the PKCS#15 standard. Unfortunately, with the beginning of next week my daily duties will capture my time again, so I urgently search for co-developer, which help to develop the next steps: - crypto operations on many different card operating systems. - Implement the JCE-provider (many parts may be overtaken from opensc-pks11) - Extend the basic scripting framework in order to achieve a full lifecycle-management for smart cards - write 16 tons of JUnit tests... The primary goal is to provide for a library, which enables to easily implement CA-applications with bouncycastle and the new PKCS#15 library. The created smart cards should be fully interoperable with the classical opensc components and thus complement the opensc-framework. An interested developer should contact me via e-mail, so I may advocate her/him in order to gain write access to the opensc-java repository. Best regards, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
