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card-backend-pcsc

PCSC card backend, e.g. for use with the openpgp-card crate

2 unstable releases

0.5.0 Sep 5, 2023
0.4.0 Aug 28, 2023

#1785 in Cryptography

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PC/SC based smart card backend

This crate provides PcscBackend and PcscTransaction, which are implementations of the CardBackend and CardTransactions traits from the card-backend crate.

This implementation uses the pcsc Rust wrapper crate to access OpenPGP cards.

Mainly intended for use with the openpgp-card library.

Documentation on PC/SC

PC/SC is a standard for interaction with smartcards and readers.

The workgroup publishes an overview and a set of documents detailing the standard.

The pcsc-lite implementation is used on many free software systems (API documentation for pcsc-lite).

Microsoft documentation about their implementation of PC/SC.

Dependencies

~0.5–1MB
~22K SLoC