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  • New PC/SC SDK and sample applications

    The version 2.00 of our PC/SC SDK is now available for download: pcsc-sdk_2-00.zip. This SDK works with our PC/SC readers (CSB6, Prox’N’Roll PC/SC, EasyFinger and CrazyWriter). This release of the SDK includes a new PC/SC Diag application, rewritten from scratch in C# for the .NET framework (previous version written in C++ with MFC for Win32 is still available anyway).…

  • Card analysis on NFCWizard

    NFCWizard.com is a free web-based online service, created and managed by SpringCard. Thanks to a Java applet, NFCWizard makes it possible to read and write SmartPoster or vCard tags directly within your web browser! NFCWizard is compliant with NFC Forum type 2 tags (Mifare UL family, and equivalent chips) and NFC Forum type 4 tags…

  • New WHQL-certified PC/SC driver

    Edited 24/04/2012: an updated version has been published to correct a few bugs. Please read this article. Our new PC/SC driver is now online and ready for download! This driver (code name : SDD480-BA) has been certified my Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Qualification Labs (WHQL) for both 32 and 64 bits operating systems. It targets all…

  • Windows 7 complains on missing driver for smartcards – a practical workaround

    Smartcards and smartcard-aware applications using application level commands (APDUs) are older than Windows and worked very well in the past, until Microsoft suddently decided that a smartcard shouldn’t be handheld directly by the applications anymore, and introduced the concept of smartcard driver software (ICC Service Provider withing the PC/SC framework). This issue sometimes occurs with our…

  • Mifare Plus in a nutshell

    Following the breakdown of Mifare Classic security, NXP has released a new generation of contactless cards to fill the gap, the Mifare Plus. To ease the migration of the existing applications, this new chip keeps the memory model of the Mifare Classic : the card is structured as an array of 16-byte blocks, and the…

  • Upgrade in our PC/SC SDK (release 1.20)

    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,…