On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 07:20:05AM +0000, Atle Sandvold wrote:
> Eric Murray wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 02:23:39PM +0000, Atle Sandvold wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Does anyone know about a smart card which contains public key
> > > cryptosystem(RSA, ..) functionality, that can be bought outside the US?
> > >
> > > I just talked to Gemplus, and they claimed that the crypto part of their
> > > "GemXpresso 210 PK" didn't work unless you had a developer kit(which
> > > didn't actually exist).
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me here?
> >
> > What about other Gemplus cards like the GPK4000?
> > That card has a 1024-bit RSA engine.
> >
>
> Have you used the card in Linux?
Nope. Shouldn't make any difference what the reader's OS is, as
the card uses standard 7816 commands to run the crypto functions.
> Have you used the crypto functionality?
Yep.
> Do I have to write my own API to access the crypto functions?
Nope. Standard 7816 commands.
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