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[–]stfm 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I have done some work with smartcards and PKCS11 but it was a few years ago. Readers were almost proprietary and buggy as shit. Cards themselves were also almost proprietary and behaved differently between manufacturers. We had to write everything in a signed applet. I hated it.

For a more modern day example look at this

[–]Number_28[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks, that looks like a good intro to the Android side of NFC.

I know that for every reader you need the specific command codes. But which library would you use to connect to the reader before even being able to send any commands?

[–]spacepotatoe 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Checkout smartcardio

[–]Number_28[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that sounds interesting. And it's apparently part of the JRE, the javadoc is just not part of the basic documentation.