Project Summary
PC/SC is a standard proposed by the PC/SC workgroup http://www.pcscworkgroup.com/ which is a conglomerate of representative from major smart card manufacturers and other companies. This specification tries to abstract the smart card layer into a high level API so that smart cards and their readers can be accessed in a homogeneous fashion.
This toolkit was written in ANSI C that can be used with most compilers and does NOT use complex and large data structures such as vectors, etc. The C API emulates the winscard API that is used on the Windows platform. It is contained in the library libpcsclite.so that is linked to your application.
In a Nutshell, pcsc-lite...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2002
ending with its most recent commit about 1 month ago
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BSD 4-clause (University of California-Specific)
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