OpenSC Smart card library that helps you implement cryptographic operations in mail encryption, authentication, and digital signature
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Smart card library that helps you implement cryptographic operations in mail encryption, authentication, and digital signature OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to access smart cards. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate their use in security applications such as mail encryption, authentication, and digital signature.OpenSC implements the PKCS#11 API so applications supporting this API such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird can use it. OpenSC implements the PKCS#15 standard and aims to be compatible with every software that does so, too.Native Mac OS X applications also have a special interface called CDSA or CSP. See AppleCSP for details. At this moment OpenSC does not support that interface and also there is no bridge to do so. But you can still use applications on Mac OS X that implement the PKCS#11 interface like Firefox, Mozilla, or Thunderbird.NOTE: OpenSC is licensed and provided under the terms of the GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL) .

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