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Skeleton for implementing a Windows PC/SC Smartcard Reader.

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                 Simulator of the virtual smartcard presence (ins_rem) 
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The goal of this utility is help to simulate of inserting, removal of
virtual smartcard in to virtual reader. Please, notice: after start of 
OS the virtual smartcard is present in the reader. Everytime, when state
of EVENT SC_INSERT_REMOVE (can be modifed by this utility) reader's state
becomes inversed. It means: when the system was started, virtual SC is 
inserted; ins_rem changed the EVENT state and state of the reader is 
changed also like : "virt. smartcard  is removed" -> "virt. smartcard  is
inserted" and so on..
After start ins_rem utility does not know about initial state of the reader,
this state will be shown by sc_mon utility. This behavior can be easily 
changed with small modification in the driver or ins_rem should check the
internal state of the reader via MS Smartcard API.

ATTENTION PLEASE : After restarting SCMR the reader forgets the state of SC and this 
program loses the possibility to control the process of INS or REM.. It's clear
why - just check how pcsc_drv manages EVENT, signaling that state of virtual 
reader is changed.

For normal execution of this utility, the registry has to have the next info:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Calais\SmartCards\XXXX_Card]
"ATR"=hex:3b,89,40,14,47,47,32,34,4d,35,32,38,30
"ATRMask"=hex:ff,00,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,ff,ff
"Crypto Provider"="Microsoft Base Cryptographic Provider v1.0"
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You can just use scard.reg to insert the  data in to the registry
(or use Microsoft Smartacard API functions for introducing of new smartcard)

Additional information can be found : http://www.dbasko.com/pc_sc.htm
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   You may contact the author by:
       E-mail:  [e-mail]  Dmitry Basko, 2003