OpenSC Installer for Mac OS X

NB! The following is work in progress! Last updated on 14.09.2010 (based on r4719).

Scope

The goal of OpenSC installer is to integrate with the platform as closely as possible and to provide support for PKCS#11 and native CDSA/Keychain applications on Mac OS X 10.5 and newer. OpenSC installs itself to the default /Library/OpenSC folder, symlinks to command line utilities are created into /usr/local/bin. There are no GUI applications but compatible personalized smart cards (see CardPersonalization) show up in /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app (because of OpenSC.tokend, installed to /System/Library/Security/tokend/OpenSC.tokend).

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

The package is built for i386 and x86_64 and contains:

• OpenSC 0.12.0 tree
• OpenSC.tokend 0.12.0 tree

System OpenSSL (0.9.8l) is used.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

The package is built for i386 and ppc7400 and contains:

• OpenSC 0.12.0 tree
• OpenSC.tokend 0.12.0 tree

System OpenSSL (0.9.7l) is used. NB! This version of OpenSSL does not support dynamic loading (DSO_DLFCN), so it is not possible to use it with engine_pkcs11!

How to uninstall ?

Run in Terminal.app:

sudo /usr/local/bin/opensc-uninstall

Known issues

• No good documentation
• Websites with re-negotiation are known to cause troubles in Safari
• On 10.5 engine_pkcs11 can not be used because of the old OpenSSL
• opensc.conf handling needs improvement

Building the installer

Building requires OS X10.6.4 with Developer Tools (Xcode 3.2.3) installed. Requires fink or macports with docbook-xsl, xsltproc, autoconf, automake and libtool2:

fink install docbook-xsl libxslt-bin autoconf2.6 automake1.11 libtool2

Then fetch the "official git mirror of OpenSC" (you can also use SVN but dependancies like OpenSC.tokend are anyway fetched from github):

git clone git://github.com/martinpaljak/OpenSC.git
cd OpenSC
./MacOSX/build # Builds 10.6 installer
./MacOSX/build 10.5 # Builds 10.5 installer

Example:

$ time ./MacOSX/build 10.5
# build output removed
created: /Users/martin/buildtest/OpenSC/OpenSC-10.5.dmg

real	4m31.994s
user	1m51.501s
sys	0m38.020s
$ time ./MacOSX/build
# build output removed
.....................................
created: /Users/martin/buildtest/OpenSC/OpenSC-10.6.dmg

real	2m21.883s
user	2m18.951s
sys	0m41.993s

Old versions

The previous (now deprecated) Mac OS X distribution SCA is also still available.