C Smartcard

Open-source C projects categorized as Smartcard

Top 5 C Smartcard Projects

  1. OpenSC

    Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver

    Project mention: Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-06

    Glad to see that they brought in humans to validate and patch vulnerabilities. Although, I really wish they linked to the actual patches. Here's what I could find:

    https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/ghostpdl.git/c...

    https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/3554

    https://github.com/dloebl/cgif/pull/84

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  3. vsmartcard

    umbrella project for emulation of smart card readers or smart cards

  4. putty-cac

    Windows Secure Shell Client With Support For Smart Cards, Certificates, & FIDO Keys

  5. PCSC

    pcsc-lite: PC/SC implementation

  6. tls-ca-manage

    Multi-level Certificate Authority Management tool, front-end tool to OpenSSL, written in bash shell.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
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    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 25 Oct 2023
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    1 project | dev.to | 9 Aug 2023
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    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
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    2 projects | /r/yubikey | 4 Apr 2023
  • SSH from any computer using FIDO2 resident key, multiple keys and hosts.

    1 project | /r/yubikey | 28 Dec 2022
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Smartcard projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 OpenSC 3,017
2 vsmartcard 844
3 putty-cac 562
4 PCSC 336
5 tls-ca-manage 43

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