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Overview

Keycard provides to developer an hardware implementation of a BIP-32 HD wallet. This means it supports key generation, derivation and signing. It also allows exporting keys defined in the context of EIP-1581.

Communication with the Keycard happens through a simple APDU interface, together with a Secure Channel guaranteeing confidentiality, authentication and integrity of all commands. It supports both NFC and ISO7816 physical interfaces, meaning that it is compatible with any Android phone equipped with NFC and all USB Smartcard readers.

The most obvious case for integration of Keycard is crypto wallets (ETH, BTC, etc), however it can be used in other systems where a BIP-32 key tree is used and/or you perform authentication/identification.

To further simplify integration, we have developed a Java-based API which can be used on both desktop and Android systems. On the desktop it uses the javax.smartcardio to interface with the card, which is compatible with most USB readers. On Android it uses the on-board NFC reader. If you develop in Java or any other language available, this is the easiest way to use the Keycard.

Read the SDK documentation

If you use a different language, please first refer to the Java SDK documentation for a high level overview of how to perform different tasks with the Keycard. Then, please check the protocol documentation out for the low-level details.

Versioning

The current version of the applet is 2.2. This documentation applies to said version. Semantic versioning is used throughout the project, with the omission of the patch number for the applet, but not the SDK and related tools. The version of all components of the Keycard project are tied to the protocol version.

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Last update: 2019-04-23
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