PinPad AKA SPR532 and OpenSC mini-howto
To get feedback as early as possible, here's a small tutorial how to get going with SPR532 and pinpad. There are other PinpadReaders and other interfaces but the given interface makes use of PC/SC version 2.0 spec Part 10.
Things you need to try it out:
- get yourself a SPR532 reader from www.scmmicro.com
- upgrade the firmware to the latest (at least 5.05) version using stuff from here: http://www.scmmicro.com/support/pcs_downloads.html?PID=70&s1=6&s2
- Note that this upgrade will make your reader's pinpad unusable under Windows if your application only supports the older and broken firmware!
- install pcsc-lite (version 1.3.3 or later)
- install ccid driver (version 1.2.1 or later)
- install the latest opensc trunk
- After installation, make sure you have opensc.conf in the location told by configure and make sure that enable_pinpad is set to 'true'
Notes:
- the whole topic is hairy - see discussions on muscle and opensc-devel mailinglist:
What you can do:
- test and provide feedback
- help to argue how things should look like in different places and how we shall solve some issues - see DesignDiscussion
Known issues:
- It is known to work with SPR532 under Linux as well as Windows XP (latest firmware and PCSC drivers, at least for pin verification)
- Support for pinpad operations in general might lag behind your needs. Patches most welcome :)
- It should work with many newer pinpad readers that provide the right driver on Windows, but currently only SPR 532 has been tested. If you have a nice reader on windows, try out the latest SCB to see it it works!
Open questions:
- SCM seems to also offer a CCID driver for LINUX: http://www.scmmicro.com/support/pcs_product_drivers.html Has anyone tested it? Does it work? martin: the usual 'binary only' whining applies. Also, there should be no difference from the pcsc v2 part 10 point of view. (I tried SCMs CCID-"driver" on april 3rd 2007 - it's just a link to Ludovics site!!)
