Hi! I have two of these devices, which work in Gentoo Linux using Harald Welte's open-source driver (http://support.reiner-sct.de/downloads/LINUX/V2.0.9/ctapi-cyberjack-2.0.9.tar.bz2).
I have an A-TRUST signature card, and I can login to my bank's online-banking, and I was hoping to use the certificate on that card also for signing / encrypting emails and documents (www.seccommerce.com has some free JAVA utilities on their website to access such a smartcard, and to digitally sign documents, for which the software can also be downloaded for free). This actual GNU/Linux driver is working without a kernel module, accessing the unit over the usbfs in userspace. Therefor I thought, this would make it easier for porting it over to *BSD, but unfortunately I found the following comment on Harald Welte's blog (http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/linux/cyberjack/index.html): ----- cut ----- One minor problem though is that both cyberjacks need asynchronous delivery of interrupt URB's, a feature that is not available by libusb. The libausb wrapper library that I developed for this purpose is specific to linux usbdevio, so the userspace driver won't be working on other libusb supported platforms such as *BSD :( ----- cut ----- I am not a coder, so I can not tell, if this makes a *BSD port impossible, or not (maybe Harald just isn't familiar with *BSD enough). Does nobody here have such a smartcard-reader? I think it should be quite popular here in Europe, because it is pretty cheap (I even got my two devices for free from my bank), they have MS Windows and Linux drivers available, and digital signatures will get pretty important in the near future (here in Austria it will be mandatory for invoices sent online with the beginning of next year). -- Sincerely, Michael An OpenBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux
