I just released a new version of
PyKCS11, a Python
wrapper above the PKCS#11 API.
See "PyKCS11 introduction" or "PyKCS11’s documentation".
setAttributeValue()
I just released a new version 2.0.7 of pyscard. PySCard is a python module adding smart cards support (PC/SC) to Python.
The PySCard project is available at:
2.0.7 (March 2023)
2.0.6 (March 2023)
SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE on Windows (on last reader removal)One of the most popular search requests that bring people on my website https://pcsclite.apdu.fr/ is about wintypes.h not found.
For example you try to compile something and get the error:
smartcard/scard/helpers.c:28:10: fatal error: winscard.h: No such file or directory
#include <winscard.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~
The PC/SC header files (winscard.h, wintypes.h and some others) are provided by the development pcsclite package.
You install the correct package and you try again to build your software.
I hope this blog article will be correctly indexed by search engines to help people find the
solution.
I just released version 1.5.2 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver.
1.5.2 - 31 January 2023, Ludovic Rousseau
--disable-usbdropdir
For historical reasons some projects I maintain are still hosted at my
"personal" page
http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/
in the
My computer programs
page.
They are:
My personal pages, hosted by my ISP (Internet Service Provider), are still not
using https. I have no access to the web server so I can't change that.
The new pages will be independent from the ISP. The projects will use a DNS name I maintain myself.
According to the Internet Archive the
"My computer programs" page exists
since August 2001. I don't think the personal pages hosted by
Free will disappear
soon, but who knows. Maybe Elon Musk will buy
Iliad (parent company of
Free) and... anything can happen next.
I will be able to get some access statistics, in particular for the file
smartcard_list.txt containing the list of ATRs used by the
pcsc_scan tool.
The projects are now in subdomains of apdu.fr. They are at:
The old pages redirect to the new web sites.
The URL
http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-tools/smartcard_list.txt
is used by (old) versions of ATR_analysis used by pcsc_scan. This file will be
maintained up to date for the next months/years.
I continue my migration to self-hosting. Thanks to all the sponsors that allow me to do that.
I just released a new version of pcsc-tools, a suite of tools for PC/SC.
I updated ATR_analysis to use the new location of the smart card ATR list.
Since January 2020 I am part of the Github sponsors program. See my previous articles: GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Sponsors: first payment and GitHub Sponsors: US$ 20 per month.
I wanted to update you about the years 2021 and 2022.
My Github sponsor page is available at Become a sponsor to Ludovic Rousseau.
You can see that I currently have 7 sponsors, and 4 past sponsors. A big thank you to all of them.
The amount of money is not public. That is why I wrote the next chapter.
In 2022 I received a total of 628 €. Compared to 394 € in 2021 that is an increase of 59%.
The amount I receive monthly is slowly growing since 2021.
To be fully transparent to my sponsors and everybody else (full disclosure?) I publish below the monthly results since the beginning of the experience:
Again a big thank you to my present and past sponsors.
If you want to help and become a sponsor then go to Become a sponsor to Ludovic Rousseau.
Dear readers,
I wish you a happy new year for 2023.
In 2022 I published 32 articles on this blog.
Again, a large part of the audience comes from the United States.
Surprisingly, a large part of the audience uses Windows.
For a blog that talks about Free Software that is strange. I guess Windows users are interested by my projects that are also available on Windows like PySCard or PyKCS11.
Or maybe Windows developers are looking for serious information they do not find elsewhere like sample codes to use PC/SC in an application?
Thank you to you, readers.
This blog has no advertising. If you want to support me you can become a
github sponsor
(or send me some bitcoins but with the current electric energy crisis and bitcoin impact on the climate it may not be a good choice).
I just released a new version of pcsc-tools, a suite of tools for PC/SC.
1.6.1 - 30 December 2022, Ludovic ROUSSEAU
The documentation for the PySCard API was not updated since 2017 (5 years ago).
The tool used to generate the HTML documentation is epydoc. The latest epydoc version was released in 2008 (14 years ago). This tool is no more available in Debian so I had to move to something else.
The (new) tool to replace epydoc is pydoctor. It is actively maintained and generates nicer HTML pages.
For example, nice changes are:
The old (epydoc) documentation is still available online at
https://pyscard.sourceforge.io/epydoc/
The new API documentation is available at
https://pyscard.sourceforge.io/apidocs/index.html
or from the project main documentation page
https://pyscard.sourceforge.io/index.html
I guess I could improve the documentation. Feel free to report issues or
suggest improvements.