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Smart Card Readers for Mac OS X

Getting non-standard hardware to work is not that easy. The first thing you’ll do is searching the internet for devices reported to work flawlessly with Mac OS X. This came up on me when looking for compatible Smart Card Readers. This is just an example for this “finding the needle in the haystack”. Normally, also Apple provides no hints on working devices. But for Smart Card Readers I accidentally found a note in an Apple document which lists compatible readers for Mac OS X. I hope this blogpost lists up #1 on Google soon.

Compatible Smart Card Readers:
Mac OS X Tiger includes built-in support for many types of smart card readers.
Compatible smart card readers include:
* Any certified Chip Card Interface Device (CCID) USB class reader
* USB readers such as Athena, CryptoCard, GemPlus, and SCM
* PC Card readers such as CryptoCard, SCM, and OmniKey  
* USB dongle readers such as OmniKey and GemPlus

Source: Apple Smart Card Setup Guide

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  1. #1 by Chris on July 26th, 2008 - 6:08 pm

    Meine Zusammenfassung zu Lartenlesern:
    Die von Gemplus und OmniKey waren nur billig. SCM hat mich gar nicht überzeugt. Insbesondere der Treiber v5.0.4 für den SCM 532 ist ein Desaster. Die Kobil KAAN-Leser sind sehr schnell. Und die ReinerSCT cyberjack zuverlässig und verdauen alles, sind aber recht langsam.

    Ich habe mittlerweile schon einige SmartCard-Reader durchprobiert und meine Erfahrungen damit auf dem “apfelwiki” veröffentlicht: http://www.apfelwiki.de/Main/Hardware#toc21

    Grüße
    Vom Chris

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