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Building a Smart Card Based Linux System?

Posted by Cliff on from the training-penguins-on-new-tech dept.

Alvaro asks: "My question is rather simple: i've recently acquired a Soyo K7V Dragon+, an excellent Ahtlon XP motherboard which includes by default a smart card reader. My intention is to get this smart card reader working on Linux, but i've no idea on how to start. Is it a serial interface? Does it have an embedded controller in the MB? Does it need kernel support? Which programs should I use to access (read from/write to) the smart cards? I've searched the web to find useful information, but so far, no luck. The final idea is to use the smart cards to hold the key to decrypt an EFS (Encrypted File System), and the computer won't boot if the card isn't inserted since the BIOS also supports booting on smart card insert! Can anyone help me?"

2 of 20 comments (clear)

  1. We love you mr baxter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    free the pengiun butter

  2. Re:One more time in slow motion please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, the guy is from Spain. I should have looked before posting the original post. Other than that your observation is very astute.

    I should know better than to expect some piece of euro trash to actually do any research or work for himself. These lazy fucks expect everything handed to them on a silver platter.