Command line tool and library of useful Java classes for working with smart cards and smart card readers via JSR268 (commonly known as javax.smartcardio). While focus is on desktop PC/SC readers, some code can be re-used with arbitrary "APDU-command-response-ish" interfaces, either as CommandAPDU/ResponseAPDU pairs or plain byte arrays.
- PinPad support (PC/SC v2 part 10 / CCID)
- Fixes all the stupid things with Java on non-windows platforms: OSX, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD.
- Java tools for convenient APDU logging, PIN handling and more
- Bundles jnasmartcardio in the command line tool for easy testing with a sane
javax.smartcardio
implementation with reader locking - Easy to use
RemoteTerminal
for building central services- Combine with GlobalPlatformPro for flexible central provisioning
- Download latest pre-built .JAR or .EXE from release area
- Or fetch from github and build it yourself, it is really easy (more instructions in CONTRIBUTING):
git clone https://github.com/martinpaljak/apdu4j
cd apdu4j
./mvnw package
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Before you begin:
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You can run the command line utility anywhere where Java runs, like this:
java -jar apdu4j.jar
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But it is easier to add an alias or use a wrapper.
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On Linux add an alias to the shell like this:
alias sc="java -jar $(PWD)/apdu4j.jar" # Now you can avoid typing java -jar and sc works from any folder sc -h
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On Windows just use pre-packaged
apdu4j.exe
like this or rename it:apdu4j.exe -h
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Display all options:
sc -h
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List readers:
sc -l
Will produce something like
[ ] Gemalto Ezio Shield 01 00 [*] ACS ACR 38U-CCID 02 00
The presence of a card or token is indicated with the asterisk
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Be verbose:
sc -l -v
Will produce:
# Using jnasmartcardio.Smartcardio - JNA2PCSC version 0.2 # Found 4 terminals [X] [ ] Yubico Yubikey 4 U2F+CCID 3BF81300008131FE15597562696B657934D4 [ ] [VMD] Gemalto Ezio Shield 01 00 [*] [ ] ACS ACR 38U-CCID 02 00 3BF91300008131FE454A434F503234325233A2 [ ] [ ] ACS ACR 38U-CCID 03 00
In addition to the ATR of the inserted card below the reader, PinPad features of the terminal are shown: V - PIN verification, M - PIN modification, D - display. X instead of the asterisk indicates a reader used exclusively by some other application.
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Take you directly to the online ATR database
sc -l -v -w
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Use a virtual smart card reader provider (format for
-p
isjar:class:args
, whereargs
part can be URL-encoded):sc -p some.jar:com.example.VirtualTerminalProvider:tcp%3A%2F%2F192.168.1.1%3A7000 -lv
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Send the APDU
00A40C0000
to the card:sc -a 00A40C0000
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The same with forced T=0 protocol (similar for T=1):
sc -t0 -a 00A40C0000
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The same, with an additional APDU, while dumping everything to
card.dump
sc -t0 -a 00A40C0000 -a 80:01:04:00:00 -dump card.dump
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SunPCSC - use specific PC/SC library:
sc -lib /usr/local/lib/pcsclite.so -l
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SunPCSC - don't issue
GET RESPONSE
commands:sc -no-get-response -a 00A4040000 -v
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Show APDU-s sent to the card (using
LoggingCardTerminal
):add
-debug
or-d
to your command -
Be verbose:
add
-verbose
or-v
to your command
Include the dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.martinpaljak</groupId>
<artifactId>apdu4j</artifactId>
<version>17.11.26</version>
</dependency>
More information can be found from Javadocs, which are always improving.
Before anything make sure you set the necessary properties to make javax.smartcardio work without tuning:
import apdu4j.TerminalManager;
TerminalManager.fixPlatformPaths();
- Show a debugging trace (like
-d
) of PC/SC calls and exhanged APDU-s with timing on System.out:
import apdu4j.LogginCardTerminal;
TerminalFactory f = TerminalFactory.getDefault();
CardReader r = f.terminals().terminal("Your Smart Card Reader Name");
reader = LoggingCardTerminal.getInstance(reader);
// Now use javax.smartcardio as you normally do
- This will give you output similar to:
SCardConnect("SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 355 00 00", T=*) -> T=1, 3BFC180000813180459067464A00680804000000000E
SCardBeginTransaction("SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 355 00 00")
A>> T=1 (4+0000) 00A40400 00
A<< (0018+2) (17ms) 6F108408A000000003000000A5049F6501FF 9000
A>> T=1 (4+0000) 80CA9F7F 00
A<< (0000+2) (11ms) 6A88
- Dump all APDU communication with a card to a file:
import apdu4j.LogginCardTerminal;
TerminalFactory tf = TerminalFactory.getDefault();
CardReader r = tf.terminals().terminal("Your Smart Card Reader Name");
FileOutputStream o = new FileOutputStream(new File("card.dump"));
reader = LoggingCardTerminal.getInstance(reader, o);
// Now use javax.smartcardio as you normally do
- This will make a dump file similar to this:
# Generated on Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:10:35 +0200 by apdu4j
# Using SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 355 00 00
# ATR: 3BFE1800008031FE4553434536302D43443038312D6E46A9
# PROTOCOL: T=1
#
# Sent
00A4040000
# Received in 24ms
6F108408A000000003000000A5049F6501FF9000
# Sent
80500000084D080A4D1C5EBC92
# Received in 70ms
00001248950019F738700103002421796B41BB3B7014659BFC8A54B2479000
NEW release
- SCUBA (LGPL) - http://scuba.sourceforge.net/
- :| written in Java
- :( no command line utility
- :) has Provider-s for weird hardware
- jnasmartcardio (CC0) - https://github.com/jnasmartcardio/jnasmartcardio
- :| written in Java
- :) provides a "better" wrapper for system PC/SC service with JNA as a Provider
- :) used by apdu4j
- OpenCard Framework (OPEN CARD CONSORTIUM SOURCE LICENSE) - http://www.openscdp.org/ocf/
- :| written in Java
- :( really old (pre-2000, comparable to CT-API)
- :( no command line utility
- intarsys smartcard-io (BSD) - https://github.com/intarsys/smartcard-io
- :| written in Java
- :| similar to jnasmartcardio (alternative native Provider)
- OpenSC (opensc-tool, LGPL) - https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC
- :| written in C
- :| related to rest of OpenSC, but allows to send APDU-s from command line with
opensc-tool -s XX:XX:XX:XX
- Countless other apdu/script tools
- :| written in different languages
- :| use different input formats and script files
- :| just FYI
When working with GlobalPlatformPro and JavaCard-s, some low level code wanted to sneak into projects where it did not belong, so it made sense to capture it into a separate library. Also, while command line tools for accessing readers on APDU (PC/SC) level existed for C, nothing was available for doing the same via Java stack, thus the need for a DWIM command line tool.
- picocli for parsing command line (Apache 2.0)
- Launch4j for generating .exe (BSD/MIT)
- jnasmartcardio for PC/SC access (CC0 / public domain)