Smart Sign – smartcard based digital signature

Smart Sign provides software suitable for smartcard based digital signature and both local and remote authentication security services.

It can also be used to integrate smart card technology into a working Certification Authority that issues public key certificates for the users through the web.

Smart Sign works with different kinds of smart cards. There are modules that work with Schlumberger’s Cyberflex Access 16K and Cryptoflex 16K smart cards and any JavaCard 2.1.1 compliant smart card (i.e. both Schlumberger’s Cyberflex Access 32K and Gemplus P11/PK). It also works with a smart card reader supported by the M.U.S.C.L.E. Project.

Features include:

• Automatic storing of private key and public certificate on the smartcard during the interaction with OpenCA for the “certification process”.
• Use of smartcard to sign e-mail and e-news.
• Use of smartcard to sign/verify every kind of file with a simple shell command.
• Smartcard-based authentication of local users to a system by means of a public key authentication protocol.
• Smartcard-based authentication of remote users to a system by means of a smart card enabled OpenSSH.
• Interactive command line browsing and invoking of all supported card commands for Cyberflex cards (ISO 7816 compliant and not).

Website: smartsign.sourceforge.net
Support: Documentation
Developer: Tommaso Cucinotta and contributors
License: GNU General Public License

Smart Sign is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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