smart cards and Linux

Monday, October 01, 2001, at 05:28PM

By Eric Richardson

So my hobby of the moment is playing with the smart card functionality of my VISA card from Providian. I've managed to get the PC/SC driver software compiled and hacked the driver for the Gemplus PC430 reader to work with the PC432 Providian distributes. Now when I put the card in the daemon recognizes that it's there. Now it's just a matter of finding anything I can do with it...

There are PC/SC Perl bindings... Now if I could only understand them... Who knows where that would lead.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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