Calypso Cards embrace PKI: a practical demo with SpringCard couplers and Python

Public transport cards are going PKI In a previous article, we introduced the MIFARE DESFire DuoX in its VDE EV configuration for secure e-mobility services. That demo illustrated a broader trend: asymmetric cryptography schemes are gaining ground over symmetric schemes. With ECC now fully mature, and silicon costs low enough to run ECDSA and/or ECDH … Read more

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, … Read more

SpringCard and Effitic ready for ‘at-home’ card-based services

Effitic, a french software engineering company, has set up a working demo that demonstrates how public transportation cards could be reloaded at home thanks to SpringCard’s contactless readers. In this architecture, all the business logic and the security components (SAM or HSM) are centralised in Effitic’s back-office server. A lightweight Java applet runs in a … Read more

Cardpeek – open source tool to read the content of smartcards

We’ve discovered a new open source project (lead by “L1L1”) that sounds promising. Cardpeek is a Linux tool to read the contents of ISO7816 smartcards. It uses a PC/SC reader to communicate with the card, and its GTK GUI represents card data is a tree view. Cardpeek list of supported cards is expandable thanks to … Read more

Calypso Explorer now available for download

SpringCard contactless readers are often used together with Calypso cards, that are used worldwide by some major transport operators (‘Navigo’ in Paris for instance). We are now offering for free two software utilities we’ve developed to retrieve and explain the content of those cards : Calypso XML Dump is a CLI written in C that … Read more