[Pcsclite-muscle] An alternate Python library for PC/SC Lite

[Frank Morgner]

The cyberflex-shell is pretty powerful, too.
https://github.com/henryk/cyberflex-shell/ It has been used for SIM card
hacking relatively successful...

On Tuesday, December 09 at 09:33AM, Russell Stuart wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 09:10 +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> > Usimtool looks to be very powerfull.  Maybe you could document it better
> > with examples of use cases
> 
> There is some documentation hiding in the python-pcsclite API doco:
> 
>   http://python-pcsclite.sourceforge.net/doc/html/#the-usimtool-py-program
> 
> > make it a "real" application and not just a sample?
> 
> I wrote it as a prototyping tool, so I could explore how one is supposed
> to drive a ISO 7816 smartcard.  Yes, it became fairly powerful - mostly
> because the messy corner cases on driving a ISO 7816 smartcard are not
> covered in the ISO 7816 specifications, or anything else I could find
> on the web. [0]  But I always intended to throw it away once I got my
> application running, so isn't tested or well documented.  I only keep it
> around in case I'm asked to develop a another smartcard application, so
> it is effectively unmaintained.  Still, someone else might find it
> useful for what I used it for - prototyping.  That's why it is sitting
> in the examples directory.
> 
> 
> [0]  It amazed me how poor the ISO reference documentation was compared
>      to the IETF documentation (or even the Python documentation). 
>      Especially so because ISO specs are expensive and hard to find,
>      whereas the open source documentation is free and easy to find.
> 
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Frank Morgner

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