Smart Card MiniDrivers and Reader Drivers

Summary list of information related to Smart Card Readers and Card Mini-Drivers 

Smart Card Mini-Driver

• Specification: https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/smartcard/sc-minidriver.mspx
• Certification Requirements: https://blogs.msdn.com/shivaram/archive/2007/02/26/card-mini-driver-certification-requirements.aspx
• List of Mini-Drivers available on Windows Update: https://test.catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=umdf
• CardMod.h - header file download: https://blogs.msdn.com/shivaram/archive/2007/01/02/smart-card-minidriver-aka-cardmodule-header-cardmod-h-download.aspx
• API on MSDN: https://blogs.msdn.com/shivaram/archive/2006/03/23/Card-Module-API-on-MSDN.aspx
• Windows Smart Card Framework Presentation (educational): https://www.incits.org/tc_home/b109htm/b109_docs07/B109_07N042.pdf

Smart Card Readers:

• PC/SC Standards support and Windows Logo for Smart Card Readers: https://blogs.msdn.com/shivaram/archive/2007/03/22/pc-sc-standards-support-and-windows-logo-for-smart-card-readers-and-drivers.aspx 
• List of Readers that work with Windows: https://blogs.msdn.com/shivaram/archive/2007/01/23/smart-cards-and-readers-that-work-with-windows.aspx

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2007
  Are these all the MS Base Smartcard CSP supported cards?

• Anonymous
  September 27, 2007
  Can you explain what "Supported" means.  If a Card has a Cerfified Mini-Driver it is expected to behave correctly against the test cases supported.

• Anonymous
  March 07, 2010
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