smartcard-identifier 1.8.1

Read smart card ID number and emulate a keyboard to paste it as text.

Smartcard Identifier

This is an extremely simple smartcard system that reads only the smart card's ID number, and pastes it as text into the currently open application. This can be used for applications that rely on nothing more than the identity of the scanned card, such as an authentication system in a low-security environment.

Installation: macOS

Download for macOS

• Install the package above. This will also add python3 to the security settings which you'll enable the in the next two steps.
• Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Automation and enable permissions for python3.
• Open System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Accessibility and enable permissions for python3.

If you can't find python3 in the list, click the "+" button, then press Command+Shift+G and type /usr/bin/python3

Installation: Linux/Windows

https://pypi.org/project/smartcard-identifier/

$ pip3 install smartcard-identifier
$ smartcard-identifier --help

Release Process

To sign the macOS release you will need to have the relevant Developer Certificate installed in your Keychain, which you can download from https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/list . Make sure you also have Apple's intermediate certificates installed, which you can download from the bottom of the page at https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/add . Without these, the Developer Certificate will show up as "untrusted" in Keychain Access.

To build & publish a release, first increment the version in pyproject.toml, then run the following to build and upload to Github and PyPI:

$ make release

Notes

If you run into the following error installing via pip3 install smartcard-identifier on macOS:

× Building wheel for pyscard (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [5 lines of output]
    running bdist_wheel
    running build
    running build_py
    Install swig and try again

then you can fix the above error by running brew install swig.