Helpful stuff

Small tidbits and useful hints that are "spin-offs" from other projects...

Die Linux-Unterstützung für die SuisseID ist - wie bei vielen kommerziellen Produkten - leider etwas eingeschräkt. Aktuell sieht bietet sich je nach Aussteller/Lieferant folgendes Bild:

• SwissSign AG bietet zur Zeit die beste Unterstützung von Linux-Umgebungen an. Offiziell werden folgende System unterstützt:

  • Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
  • Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
  • openSUSE 11.2 (Emerald)
  • Fedora 13 (Goddard)

  Unter den aufgeführten Umgebungen werden jeweils Firefox (Browser) und Thunderbird (eMail) unetstützt.

• Quo Vadis Trustlink Schweiz AG

  bietet zur Zeit keine Unterstützung für Linux-Umgebungen an.

• swisscom AG

  liefert nur für Grosskunden. Es ist nicht zu ersehen, ob Linux unterstützt wird oder nicht.

Auf den nachfolgenden Seiten habe ich beschrieben, wie ich die SuisseID von SwissSign AG unter Debian GNU/Linux einsetze: Mehr...

As a by-product of my work on analyzing and cloning smartcards I wrote a library for ISO 7816 serial communication. The library itself is based on the work of the project SOSSE (Simple Operating System for Smartcard Education). I enhanced the assembler code for I/O so that it now also supports "direct convention" (and not just "indirect convention" as in the original code). Based on the defined ATR the module switches automatically to the correct mode of operation.

The library y67.sclib.tar.gz is published under GPL and can be used in your own open-source projects.

Active projects

Here are some of my "fun" projects I currently work on in my free time - although it's hard to find some free time any more. But they are "fun" projects, so take them as that and have fun yourself...

• None at the moment

Old projects

Every project has its time - and some even die. Here are some older (and basically inactive) projects of mine:

is a framework for KVM-based application development. If you have a Palm and like Java programming, this might be of interest for you.

Since I bought my first PalmPilot in 1997 (a P5000 by USRobotics) I was looking into many different ways to write apps for the Palm including GCC, PocketC, Jump, Waba and the like. But none of these fulfilled my dream ob a real object-oriented, internet-savvy application development environment.

I actually hope that this will change with the KVM released by sun. My first look at the user interface side was not that convincing, so I decided to pave the way for my own app development by creating a small, effective framework to support rapid development of KVM apps.

allows you to write AutoCAD applications in Java. A cool tool for Java-aware CAD programmers.

The integration of Java into AutoCAD is one of my favorite projects - because I love Java - and that was love on first sight - and as an ARx programmer who is forced to use C++ to develop AutoCAD applications, I decided to combine these two different worlds into a new environment - one that allows you to program AutoCAD by using Java instead of C++.