PC/SC Specification

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Personal Computer/Smart Card specification defining smart card reader API for desktop operating systems.

  
  
The PC/SC specification defines a standard architecture for connecting smart-card readers to desktop and server operating systems, abstracting reader hardware behind a common API. Implemented natively in Windows and via the open-source PCSClite project on macOS and Linux, it lets one application work with readers from many manufacturers. It is the layer that middleware such as PKCS#11 modules and identity clients rely on to reach the card.

  
  

    
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    Published 1996
    
    
  






  
  

    
    




    
    

    
    

    
    

      
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Year Published1996

            
            
            
            
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