SCA For Mac

SCA is a binary installer package for Mac OS X which contains OpenSC and an Token Daemon for use with native Mac OS X applications.

SCA also comes with a version of OpenSSH with smart card support. Also, this project enhances smart card support of Mac OS X with OpenSC tools.

There is no GUI, or even new application in your Applications folder. The command line tools are installed in /Library/OpenSC/bin and must be started from a Terminal.

SCA installs things in the appropriate places on the system so as to integrate with two kinds of APIs: PKCS#11 and Tokend.

Applications that can use PKCS#11 modules (like Mozilla family applications (Firefox, Thunderbird)) can use the module that is located at /Library/OpenSC/lib/opensc-pkcs11.so after the installation.

The SCA package contains also Tokend for OpenSC. So you can use an OpenSC compatible smart card with Apple native applications like Mail.app, Safari, or even KeychainAccess. With Tokend, you can also use the smartcard and PIN instead of the usual login/password to log onto your Mac.

At the moment you can download the following versions of this software: · SCA complete package (with OpenSC, OpenSC.Tokend, OpenSSL, Engine PKCS#11, LibP11, OpenSSH, Axalto e-Gate driver, Libusb and pcscd-autostartup-fix). Inside the Installer, you can personalize. · SCA-Light is a "Light" version, for users who just want to use their SmartCards for login or authentication on Web sites with Firefox or Safari and for mail signature/encryption/decryption with Thunderbird and Mail.app. This package contains OpenSC and OpenSC.Tokend. · SCA-Reader contains the driver for Axalto E-gate (and libusb) and Pcscd autostart fix. This is an add-on to the SCA-Light package for Axalto E-gate (you need to select libusb too for this purpose) and can also fix that PCSCD startup problem when it not runs after inserting some card readers.

NOTE: The SCA package does not provide any smartcard reader driver (excepting Axalto E-gate, and then again it is not installed by default: you need to select "Personalize" in the Installer and then select ifd-egate, libusb and autostart). All other smartcard readers or USB tokens need to be functional before any attempts to use this package. A good test is to launch pcsctest in a Terminal with your card reader connected and a smart card inserted (or your USB token connected).