Basic configuration of OpenSC

Question

I received a Cherry ST-2000 and a Reiner SCT cyberJack RFID smartcard reader and some smartcards. I wanted to learn a bit about how these things work but I seem to fail a basic step. I tried a few tutorials which are all basicly saying, install a few packets and then it'll work.

I installed opensc and some accompanying packages (pcsc-tools, libccid, libengine-pkcs11-openssl, gpg*) on my machine but opensc-tool --list-readers doesn't see any readers. I tried on an osx (brew), raspbian and freebsd machine with the same result. All three detect the usb devices but opensc does not detect the readers.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/Quick-Start-with-OpenSC
• https://hardy0700.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/einrichten-eines-reiner-sct-unter-linux/
• https://xoid.us/2019/07/22/smartcard-with-opensc-and-openssl.html

Answer 1

Did you install pcscd? It is the system process that accesses the readers.

OpenSC and other middleware uses the PC/SC API to pcscd.

To see if pcsc supports your reader, see: https://ccid.apdu.fr/#readers