apdu4j ·

Command line tool and library of useful Java classes for working with smart cards and smart card readers via JSR268 (commonly known as javax.smartcardio). While focus is on desktop PC/SC readers, some code can be re-used with arbitrary "APDU-command-response-ish" interfaces, either as CommandAPDU/ResponseAPDU pairs or plain byte arrays.

Features

• PinPad support (PC/SC v2 part 10 / CCID)
• Fixes all the stupid things with Java on non-windows platforms: OSX, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD.
• Java tools for convenient APDU logging, PIN handling and more
• Bundles jnasmartcardio in the command line tool for easy testing with a sane javax.smartcardio implementation with reader locking
• Easy to use RemoteTerminal for building central services
  • Combine with GlobalPlatformPro for flexible central provisioning

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Get it now!

• Download latest pre-built .JAR or .EXE from release area
• Or fetch from github and build it yourself, it is really easy (more instructions in CONTRIBUTING):

git clone https://github.com/martinpaljak/apdu4j
cd apdu4j
./mvnw package

Usage from command line

• Before you begin:

  • You can run the command line utility anywhere where Java runs, like this:

    java -jar apdu4j.jar
    

  • But it is easier to add an alias or use a wrapper.

  • On Linux add an alias to the shell like this:

    alias sc="java -jar $(PWD)/apdu4j.jar"
    # Now you can avoid typing java -jar and sc works from any folder
    sc -h
    

  • On Windows just use pre-packaged apdu4j.exe like this or rename it:

    apdu4j.exe -h
    

• Display all options:

  sc -h
  

• List readers:

  sc -l
  

  Will produce something like

  [ ] Gemalto Ezio Shield 01 00
  [*] ACS ACR 38U-CCID 02 00
  

  The presence of a card or token is indicated with the asterisk

• Be verbose:

  sc -l -v
  

  Will produce:

  # Using jnasmartcardio.Smartcardio - JNA2PCSC version 0.2
  # Found 4 terminals
  [X] [   ] Yubico Yubikey 4 U2F+CCID
            3BF81300008131FE15597562696B657934D4
  [ ] [VMD] Gemalto Ezio Shield 01 00
  [*] [   ] ACS ACR 38U-CCID 02 00
            3BF91300008131FE454A434F503234325233A2
  [ ] [   ] ACS ACR 38U-CCID 03 00
  

  In addition to the ATR of the inserted card below the reader, PinPad features of the terminal are shown: V - PIN verification, M - PIN modification, D - display. X instead of the asterisk indicates a reader used exclusively by some other application.

• Take you directly to the online ATR database

  sc -l -v -w
  

• Use a virtual smart card reader provider (format for -p is jar:class:args, where args part can be URL-encoded):

  sc -p some.jar:com.example.VirtualTerminalProvider:tcp%3A%2F%2F192.168.1.1%3A7000 -lv
  

• Send the APDU 00A40C0000 to the card:

  sc -a 00A40C0000
  

• The same with forced T=0 protocol (similar for T=1):

  sc -t0 -a 00A40C0000
  

• The same, with an additional APDU, while dumping everything to card.dump

  sc -t0 -a 00A40C0000 -a 80:01:04:00:00 -dump card.dump
  

• SunPCSC - use specific PC/SC library:

  sc -lib /usr/local/lib/pcsclite.so -l
  

• SunPCSC - don't issue GET RESPONSE commands:

  sc -no-get-response -a 00A4040000 -v
  

• Show APDU-s sent to the card (using LoggingCardTerminal):

  add -debug or -d to your command

• Be verbose:

  add -verbose or -v to your command

Usage from Java

Include the dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.martinpaljak</groupId>
    <artifactId>apdu4j</artifactId>
    <version>17.11.26</version>
</dependency>

More information can be found from Javadocs, which are always improving.

Before anything make sure you set the necessary properties to make javax.smartcardio work without tuning:

import apdu4j.TerminalManager;
TerminalManager.fixPlatformPaths();

LoggingCardTerminal

• Show a debugging trace (like -d) of PC/SC calls and exhanged APDU-s with timing on System.out:

import apdu4j.LogginCardTerminal;
        
TerminalFactory f = TerminalFactory.getDefault();
CardReader r = f.terminals().terminal("Your Smart Card Reader Name");
reader = LoggingCardTerminal.getInstance(reader);
// Now use javax.smartcardio as you normally do

• This will give you output similar to:

SCardConnect("SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 355 00 00", T=*) -> T=1, 3BFC180000813180459067464A00680804000000000E
SCardBeginTransaction("SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 355 00 00")
A>> T=1 (4+0000) 00A40400 00 
A<< (0018+2) (17ms) 6F108408A000000003000000A5049F6501FF 9000
A>> T=1 (4+0000) 80CA9F7F 00 
A<< (0000+2) (11ms) 6A88

• Dump all APDU communication with a card to a file:

import apdu4j.LogginCardTerminal;
        
TerminalFactory tf = TerminalFactory.getDefault();
CardReader r = tf.terminals().terminal("Your Smart Card Reader Name");
FileOutputStream o = new FileOutputStream(new File("card.dump"));
reader = LoggingCardTerminal.getInstance(reader, o);
// Now use javax.smartcardio as you normally do

• This will make a dump file similar to this:

# Generated on Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:10:35 +0200 by apdu4j
# Using SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 355 00 00
# ATR: 3BFE1800008031FE4553434536302D43443038312D6E46A9
# PROTOCOL: T=1
#
# Sent
00A4040000
# Received in 24ms
6F108408A000000003000000A5049F6501FF9000
# Sent
80500000084D080A4D1C5EBC92
# Received in 70ms
00001248950019F738700103002421796B41BB3B7014659BFC8A54B2479000

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Similar and related projects

• SCUBA (LGPL) - http://scuba.sourceforge.net/
  • :| written in Java
  • :( no command line utility
  • :) has Provider-s for weird hardware
• jnasmartcardio (CC0) - https://github.com/jnasmartcardio/jnasmartcardio
  • :| written in Java
  • :) provides a "better" wrapper for system PC/SC service with JNA as a Provider
  • :) used by apdu4j
• OpenCard Framework (OPEN CARD CONSORTIUM SOURCE LICENSE) - http://www.openscdp.org/ocf/
  • :| written in Java
  • :( really old (pre-2000, comparable to CT-API)
  • :( no command line utility
• intarsys smartcard-io (BSD) - https://github.com/intarsys/smartcard-io
  • :| written in Java
  • :| similar to jnasmartcardio (alternative native Provider)
• OpenSC (opensc-tool, LGPL) - https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC
  • :| written in C
  • :| related to rest of OpenSC, but allows to send APDU-s from command line with opensc-tool -s XX:XX:XX:XX
• Countless other apdu/script tools
  • :| written in different languages
  • :| use different input formats and script files
  • :| just FYI

History and motivation

When working with GlobalPlatformPro and JavaCard-s, some low level code wanted to sneak into projects where it did not belong, so it made sense to capture it into a separate library. Also, while command line tools for accessing readers on APDU (PC/SC) level existed for C, nothing was available for doing the same via Java stack, thus the need for a DWIM command line tool.

Included/used open source projects

• picocli for parsing command line (Apache 2.0)
• Launch4j for generating .exe (BSD/MIT)
• jnasmartcardio for PC/SC access (CC0 / public domain)

License

• MIT

Contact

• martin@martinpaljak.net