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Ebrahim Ghasemi
Asked: 2014-06-23 04:24:29 +0800 CST

If a card reader + its driver are PC/SC compliant in windows, is it PC/SC compliant in Ubuntu?

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I have two basic questions and find no one and nowhere to ask them. finally send them to you.

  1. If a card reader+ its driver was PC/SC compliant in windows, is it PC/SC compliant in other OSs too? (for example in Linux, MacOS and ...). Or for each OS we need a new test?

  2. If I have a card reader and I don't want to trust its factory and the list that is in the PC/SC workgroup site, can I myself check its compatibility with PCSC or not? I mean, is there any check list to checking?

I would appreciate a detailed answer.

smartcard

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  1. Best Answer
    1. If the reader is CCID compliant, it would appear that the answer is yes. From http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html#CCID_compliant:

    The USB CCID specification published by the USB Workgroup aims to normalize USB smartcard readers, in order to have a single driver (supplied once for all with the operating system) for virtually any reader from any manufacturer.

    PCSC-Lite project includes an open source CCID driver. This driver has been tested with SpringCard CSB6 on GNU/Linux, and should work on the other operating systems targetted by the project.

    Since PCSC-Lite is pc/sc compliant, and CCID is included, this should imply that all CCID compliant readers can be used in PCSC-Lite, a PC/SC compliant driver. http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/

    1. Per http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html#CCID_compliant

    To know if a smart card reader is CCID compliant and should be supported by this driver but is not listed bellow

    Just get the source code of this driver and do:

    tar xjvf ccid-x.y.z.tar.bz2
cd ccid-x.y.z
./configure
make
sudo ./src/parse > output.txt
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