PC/SC IFD Handler for swICC-based Cards

June 20, 2024 ยท View on GitHub

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This is a PC/SC IFD (interface device) handler for swICC-based cards. In other words this acts like a smart card reader but instead of being a driver for a physical device, it is instead an all-software card reader for swICC-based cards.

Install

  • These instructions are for Debian and Ubuntu, for Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE take a look at ./doc/install.md.
  • You need make, cmake, gcc, pkg-config, libpcsclite1 (library for the pcsc-lite middleware), and libpcsclite-dev (other dev files for pcsc-lite) to compile the project. At runtime you will need the pcscd package which contains the pcsc-lite daemon.
  1. sudo apt-get install make cmake gcc pkg-config libpcsclite1 libpcsclite-dev pcscd
  2. git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:tomasz-lisowski/swicc-pcsc.git
  3. cd swicc-pcsc
  4. make main-dbg (for more info on building and installing, take a look at ./doc/install.md).
  5. sudo make install

Usage

  1. pkill -x pcscd to stop the PC/SC daemon.
  2. In a separate terminal run sudo pcscd -f -d -T. This will run the PC/SC daemon in the foreground with debug output.
  3. The swICC PC/SC reader will wait for cards to connect to it.
  4. Once a card connects to the reader, it can be interacted with, just like with a real smart card connected to a hardware card reader.

Note that multiple cards can be connected at once, the card limit is set by modifying SWICC_NET_CLIENT_COUNT_MAX in the swICC library.