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asterix, a framework for communication with smartcards based on pyscard

https://github.com/suma12/asterix

Author: Petr Tobiska, mailto:petr.tobiska@gmail.com

This file is a part of asterix, a framework for communication with smartcards based on pyscard.

asterix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

asterix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with pyscard; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Last update : asterix 0.3 (November 2017)

asterix is a framework for communication with smartcards based on pyscard

It consists of:

formutil a module with formatting utilities

GAF a module for representation and evaluation of ASN1 structures

mycard a module providing handy primitives for card communication

APDU a module for creation and transmission of common APDU to a smartcard

SCP02 an implementation of Secure Channel Protocol 02 as defined in Global platform

SCP03 an implementation of Secure Channel Protocol 03 as defined in Global platform

applet a module for loading, installation and deletion of JavaCard applets to a smartcard

CAT a module implementing Card Application Toolkit as defined in ETSI TS 102.223

SecurePacket a module implementing Secure Packet for OTA communication with smartcards

auth3G a module implementing authentication and key agreement in 3G/4G networks (namely Milenage algorithm)

All modules are platform independent, working with Python 2.7

All modules relies on pyscard, a package implementing PCSC layer for communication with smartcards.

Documentation

See wiki

Installation

The asterix framework is packaged using the standard distutils python module. It is pure python implementation.

Installing using distutils:

Unzip asterix-<version>.zip, cd asterix-<version> and run python setup.py install

Dependencies

The asterix framework depends on the following packages: