On Feb 19, 2010, at 20:31 , Greg Mefford wrote:
> My question is: what does the support for this card look like today,
> and what can I do to help develop it.
OpenSC has basic (or practically no supportt) for the card. Basically you can 
maybe read files from the card but you can't do anything useful (like generate 
keys or store certificates or calcluate signatures).

> I'm new to smart cards and to
> opensc, but I've spent a lot of time reading through the ACOS5
> documentation and about smart cards in general.
Great!

> I feel confident that I could develop the code if I had any idea where
> to start and what needs to be done to make this card useful on the
> non-Windows platforms. If anyone can help get me started, I'll be
> happy to get the project complete and contribute a patch back.

You should improve the basic ACOS5 "read only" support present in OpenSC source 
src/libopensc/card-acos5.c

Then you should add the necessary commands to generate on card structures like 
keys and add a profile for the card in src/pkcs15init/ (currently missing 100%)

I also have ACOS5 cards so I could help testing. Other people on this list can 
hopefully guide you (and me) through the pkcs15init/profile related parts.

Good luck,
-- 
Martin Paljak
http://martin.paljak.pri.ee
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