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frankmorgner committed Jun 6, 2016
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:Tested Platform:
Android, CyanogenMod

The Remote Smart Card Reader allows a host computer to use the smartphone's NFC
hardware as contact-less smart card reader. On the host computer, a special
smart card driver, |vpcd| must be installed. The Remote Smart Card Reader
establishes a connection to |vpcd| over the network when a contact-less card is
detected. Since |vpcd| integrates seamlessly into the PC/SC framework of the
host system, the contact-less card can be accessed by a typical smart card
application, for example OpenSC_.
Allow a host computer to use the smartphone's NFC hardware as contact-less
smartcard reader. On the host computer a special smart card driver, |vpcd|, must
be installed. The app establishes a connection to |vpcd| over the network when a
contact-less card is detected.


.. tikz:: Remote Smart Card Reader used to access a contact-less card
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The Remote Smart Card Reader has the following dependencies:

- NFC hardware built into the smartphone
- Android 4.4 "KitKat" (or newer) or CyanogenMod 11 (or newer)
- Android 4.4 "KitKat" or CyanogenMod 11 (or newer)
- permissions for a data connection (communication with |vpcd|) and for using
NFC (communication to the card); scanning the configuration via QR code
requires permission to access the camera
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