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Smart Card communication establishment in Windows
When I insert a Smart Card to the reader after receiving ATR I can see in the driver log a number of IOCTL's that are not sent by my application (as is not running).
My question is if there is any document, describing Smard Card communication establishment in windows?
Solution
There is the Win32 API for communicating with smart cards within Windows platform in form SCardXXX. Similar implementation for Linux is developed under Muscle project as PC/SC Lite API.On Windows platform Following functions will be used:
- SCardEstablishContext
- SCardListReaders
- SCardConnect
- SCardReconnect
- SCardDisconnect
- SCardReleaseContext
- SCardTransmit
Figure shows that how the smart card intract with application on windows platform.
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