How to use a NetKey card

Jan-Oliver Wagner jan@intevation.de
Thu Mar 28 14:51:01 2002


Hi Werner,

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:35:01PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> I managed to make the German Telesec NetKey Smartcards work with
> Aegypten.  For now only signing is supported and card personalization
> requires the use of OpenSSL.
> 
> You have to use the latest NewPG from the CVS and with a modified
> OpenSC tarball at:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/aegypten/newpg-0.6-1-wk-20020328.tar.gz
> 
> I am going to prepare patches for the upstream release but for now the
> tarball should work.
> 
> IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THESE RULES, IT MAY HAPPEN THAT YOU MAKE THE CARD
> UNUSABLE - IT IS ALSO LIKELY THAT THIS HAPPENS DUE TO BUGS OR
> INSTRALLATION PROBLEMS.  I have been lucky in that I have only one
> file on one card which is not deletable anymore.
> 
> The blank TCOS cards don't work yet because we do not have a procedure
> yet to install a SO password (global secret 0). 

what exactly is the difference between non-personalized and blank TCOS
cards?

	Jan

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