OpenSC Alternatives

OpenSC is described as 'Provides a set of libraries and utilities to work with smart cards. Mainly on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate their use in security applications such as authentication, mail encryption and digital signatures' and is an app. There are four alternatives to OpenSC for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best OpenSC alternative is Pkcs11Admin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenSC are YubiKey PIV Manager, Cardpeek and PUPPICAD.

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  1. Pkcs11Admin icon
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    Pkcs11Admin is an open-source GUI tool for administration of PKCS#11 enabled devices (smartcards, HSMs etc.) which runs under .NET 4.5 on MS Windows and under Mono 3.X on Linux and Mac OS X.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Pkcs11Admin is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to OpenSC.

    • Pkcs11Admin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to OpenSC.

    • Pkcs11Admin is Free and Open SourceOpenSC is also Free and Open Source
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    The YubiKey PIV Manager enables you to configure a PIV-enabled YubiKey through a graphical user interface. It builds upon the yubico-piv-tool command line interface to expose its features in an easy to use way, as well as adds some additional functionality that makes it useful...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Cardpeek icon
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    Cardpeek is a Linux/Windows/Mac OS X tool to read the contents of ISO7816 smart cards. It features a GTK GUI to represent card data is a tree view, and is extensible with a scripting language (LUA).

    11 Cardpeek alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. PUPPICAD icon
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    PUPPICAD is a free Computational Design and Engineering Development Environment. PUPPICAD features over 3000 different node types, for visual programming, mathematics and computational geometry.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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