The release 1.20 of SpringCard PC/SC SDK is now available in the Download section of the website (direct link to latest version : http://www.springcard.com/download/find.php?file=pcsc-sdk). This SDK is meant to be used with our products in the SpringCard CSB6 Family (CSB6, Prox’N’Roll PC/SC, EasyFinger and CrazyWriter).
People working in the ’emerging’ NFC field will be glad to discover the updated versions of NFCTool, a .NET based application (written in C#) that makes it easy to create or to read NFC Tags compliant with the SmartPoster specification (as published by NFC Forum). Command-line nfc_create utility is also very useful to encode batches of NFC Tags.
The Desfire support library (pcsc_desfire.dll on Windows) has been upgraded; it now fully supports all the new features of NXP Desfire EV1 smartcards: AES and Triple-DES with 3 keys (3KDES), ISO 7816-4 compliant directories and files, card-level configuration. NXP Mifare UltraLight C chips are supported easily thanks to a new library (pcsc_mifulc.dll). Also, we’ve added in the SDK the Calypso support library (pcsc_calypso.dll) and its related sample software. All those libraries come with C source code.
New command line utilities have also been written for the ones who want to master PC/SC from its very basis, or have portability in mind. Most our C examples now run on Linux without any modification.