OpenSC documentation

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Manual pages for the OpenSC command line tools as well as for the OpenSC configuration files are available online and typically distributed along with your installation.

The OpenSC Wiki includes, among others, information for:

Downloads

Latest release

The latest stable version of OpenSC is available on Github. It is available as

  • Windows installer for Intel 64 bit and 32 bit programs (OpenSC*_x64.msi and OpenSC*_x86.msi) and Arm (OpenSC*_arm64.msi)
  • macOS installer (OpenSC*.dmg)
  • Source code distribution (opensc*.tar.gz)

Nightly build

The latest source code is available through GitHub. Nightly builds are available by their git hash in branches of OpenSC/Nightly.

Build and testing status

Linux build Windows build OSX build Coverity Scan Status CodeQL Fuzzing Status CII Best Practices

Build and test status of specific cards:

CardsStatus
CACCAC
virt_CACardvirt_CACard
CoolkeyCoolkey
PivAppletPIV
OpenPGP AppletOpenPGP
GidsAppletGIDS
IsoAppletIsoApplet
OsEID (MyEID)OsEID (MyEID)
SmartCardHSMSmartCardHSM
ePass2003ePass2003