Thank you Hetz. >From what you wrote and what I looked it really seems we should not have any problems with the hardware. Tehila says something regarding using Firefox in this document: http://www.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/864BC531-DA34-4007-8EA9-39FAEA9607CE/0/Firefox.doc
>From reading this document it seems we can use it under Linux although they say Linux not yet supported. Can someone read it and maybe point out some other problems I have overlooked? -- Ori Idan On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, finished! (at least in terms of hardware "research") > > The Tehila project suggest 5 card readers which are "supported" by them > (well, someone will support, maybe, Tehila doesn't know how to support > people), you can see the list here: > http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/smartCard/business/businessStart/ > > <http://www.gov.il/FirstGov/smartCard/business/businessStart/>I won't look > at the serial and PCMCIA solutions cause everyone got USB these days, so > we're left with 3 cards: > > 1. Athena ASE llle USB - this card is fully supported under Linux. You can > download it's driver (fully open source), run configure, make, make install > and thats it. I think it's already included on some recent distribution, but > even if it's not, it takes 1 minute to compile & install. > 2. SCM SCR3310 - This card uses a *binary only* library (scmccid) which it > has some hard-coded library path inside it (some developers should be > shot!). Avoid this card if you prefer not to mess with binary only stuff. > Please note: it's not binary only kernel driver, only user level shared > library. > 3. GemPlus GemPC Twin - This one is the nicest. You don't need any special > drivers. If you're distribution is pretty modern, it should have the driver > for it inside the kernel and it would be auto recognize it when you connect > it to your machine. > > Amos - I assume that OS X has PC/SC support inside, so you should have out > of the box support on your Mac on 1 and 3. Funny thing: Number 2 driver got > this on it's Info.plist file: > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" " > http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > > Thats - for the kernel stuff. User level stuff - that I need to research a > bit... > > Thanks, > Hetz > > 2010/11/14 Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> > > How is the market share of Apple in Israel these days? Their distrobutors >> should be interested in this issue as well. >> >> On 15/11/2010 7:14 AM, "Ori Idan" <o...@helicontech.co.il> wrote: >> >> No, I do not think the people from Tehila will help me. >> I did this only to let them know that people use other operating systems. >> I hope that other people will do that too. >> I did search the net and found that they use card readers by some know >> manufacturers see for example: >> http://www.scmmicro.com/security/view_product_en.php?PID=4 >> >> -- >> Ori Idan >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Ori, >> > >> > You really... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > -- > > *חץ בן חמו > חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) > *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים > השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים *קטנים* > בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz <http://www.hetz.biz/> ובבלוג שלנו: > blog.hetz.biz > טלפוןן: 0783333113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz > מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique > >
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