# Austrian "Bürgerkarte"

Austria has several laws for smart cards (most important the "Signaturgesetz"), and all cards conforming to those laws are using the custom-built ACOS card operating system. Mostly electronic banking cards (Bankomatkarte) with a new chip and the "a-sign premium" logo on the back can be used to add an official certificate to it. These certificate can then be used for several government communications (tax reports, electronic receiving of orders, bank logins etc).

A-Trust, the only accredited provider of certificates suitable for the Signaturgesetz, provides a pkcs#11 Library (for Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird) to access the card: http://www.a-trust.at/xpi/atrusttools/info.asp

The card itself does not have a pkcs#15 structure on it. Some support for the atrust-acos OS is already in opensc. It detects the card as an a-Trust ACOS card, however, I haven't been able to do anything else yet (using opensc 0.10.1).

Links:

- Official Data sheet of the ACOS cards
- PKCS#11 Library to access the card (closed-source)

# Austrian e-card

Since 2005, all Austrians have a health card, called e-card:

http://www.chipkarte.at/esv_images/cc/home/karte_neu.jpg

I don't have enough informations about these cards to make OpenSC support them. If you do have any such information, please let us know or add a link to the list below:

Information about the Austrian e-card:

- Information about the "e-card"
- Wikipedia Information
- https://auswahl.buergerkarte.at
- http://www.buergerkarte.at/konzept/securitylayer/spezifikation/aktuell/index.html
- http://www.buergerkarte.at/konzept/personenbindung/spezifikation/aktuell/