Top 6 C Smartcard Projects

OpenSC

8 2,413 9.6 C

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

Project mention: How do you put your private key files (.ppk) on a security key (HYPERFIDO U2F/FIDO2/HOTP) ? | /r/sysadmin | 2023-10-25

vsmartcard

2 667 6.1 C

umbrella project for emulation of smart card readers or smart cards
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
putty-cac

12 448 6.1 C

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

Project mention: NIST: Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-23

PuTTY-CAC was an interesting, although imperfect solution to using PIV/CAC cards together with SSH. I remember piloting it from 2013-2014 at an agency. Back then, it was maintained by Dan Risacher[0]. Nowadays it is maintained on GitHub[1] and adopted some interesting features like FIDO.
[0] https://risacher.org/putty-cac/
[1] https://github.com/NoMoreFood/putty-cac

hydrafw

2 335 7.3 C

HydraBus HydraFW official firmware for open source multi-tool for anyone interested in learning/developping/debugging/hacking/Penetration Testing for basic or advanced embedded hardware
PCSC

1 234 7.9 C

pcsc-lite: PC/SC implementation
tls-ca-manage

1 39 0.0 C

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).