Hello, On Apr 7, 2010, at 17:28 , Harry Anuszewski wrote > I currently have a java application that allows the user to login to a > website using a smart card. I use openSC-java to select a card reader, create > a session and pull out certificate information, etc. I would like to make > this a web application but I know that openSC-java depends on a few .dll > files for windows and a few .so files for linux. Right now I am just working > with the windows half. The way my app works now is it checks for openSC in > the system path if it doesn’t find it then it prompts to run an installer > that I created that puts openSC in C:\program files\opensc and then adds that > to the system path and reboots the computer. The next time the user goes to > run the program they will be able to use opensc. > > What I am basically wondering is, is their a way to create a jar that has the > opensc dependencies (.dll) so that the user never has to download and run my > installer? Everything will be handled online. There are three aspects of Java and smart cards that matter in the context of web applications: - TLS/SSL client authentication (means configuration of the web container, so not really related to OpenSC) - access to cryptographic smart cards in applets via a JNI bridge to PKCS#11 (possible via Sun PKCS#11 provider available since Java 1.5+ or OpenSC-Java one, the problem you're facing) - access to smart cards via javax.smartcardio in Java 1.6+
IMO, the preferred way would be to use javax.smartcardio and bypass the JNI problem, if you have a specific smart card to talk to and don't need to rely on the PKCS#11 provider availability on the client machine. There is preliminary support for reading PKCS#15 structures a la OpenSC does, in Java, as pointed out in [1] There are some *very* preliminary pointers to Java resources on OpenSC wiki [1] which will be improved ASAP [1] http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/Java -- Martin Paljak http://martin.paljak.pri.ee +3725156495 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
