Released on: October 9, 2008, 5:11 am

Press Release Author: soft Xpansion

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: soft Xpansion publishes Smart Card Crypto Provider –
a software library for safe digital signatures


Press Release Body: (Bochum, May, 30 2008) – At the signing of documents a
digital signature substitutes a handwritten signature on paper. Instead of paper
documents appear electronic documents, like for example PDF files. A digital
signature can be presented at the usage of a standard PC, a suitable software and
additional hardware, like for example a combination of Smart Card and reader.
However, the technical process of digital signing is a complex task, which requires
software, programmed especially for this purpose. In addition, almost every Smart
Card has its own, specific properties and this means additional expenditure for a
necessary software adjusting.
Smart Card Crypto Provider 3 – quick & safe digital signing
The Smart Card Crypto Provider library by soft Xpansion makes the implementing of
digital signatures into commercial processes easier. It simplifies the usage of
Smart Card certificates for the encoding and decoding. With this product the
software developers do not need a deep knowledge about technical details of digital
signing of documents. The library can be quickly and at low expenditure combined
with software applications. The encoding/decoding occurs over the Microsoft(r)
encoding application interface "Crypto API", provided for programmers. Except the
installed hardware drivers, for example, for the card reader, no other components
are necessary. All card readers, which support the standard PC/SC, can be used.
Supported Smart Cards:
The library can be used with the most common Smart Cards in Germany and Europe. Now
they are

T-TeleSec E4NetKey V2.0-Karte
Deutsche Post SIGNTRUST-Karte
Deutsche Bank db SignaturCard
D-TRUST Standard-Signaturkarte
S-TRUST SparkassenCard
A-TRUST a.sign
Aladdin eToken-Familie
Product overview:
Details about Smart Card Crypto Provider 3 can also be found on the product site in
the Internet.
Download:
For the Smart Card Crypto Provider 3 you can download a demo application PDF Quick
Reader (Freeware) here. PDF Quick Reader uses the Smart Card Crypto Provider library
to sign PDF documents with certificates, which are saved locally on the PC, on Smart
Cards or on USB-Sticks. The implemented library is accessible over the item
Document/Sign... in the program menu.

Operating system:
The library supports all up-to-date Windows platforms: Windows(r) Vista, XP, Server
2003, 2000.
About soft Xpansion:
soft Xpansion is a worldwide international team, which has developed more than 100
software products since its foundation in 1995. In addition to Germany, Austria and
Switzerland, product markets are situated in a large number of other countries, in
which localized product versions were published. Among them are Great Britain,
France, Italy, USA, Benelux, Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Portugal, Australia and Turkey.
soft Xpansion offers solutions (individual development, developer libraries,
standard software and freeware), which are focused on the areas of PDF-technology,
document and database management systems as well as data and application security.
Further information about the enterprise you can find on
http://www.soft-xpansion.com. soft Xpansion is a member of PDF/A Competence Center,
http://www.pdfa.org.

Web Site: http://www.soft-xpansion.com

Contact Details: soft Xpansion GmbH & Co. KG, Frank Dueckers, Koenigsallee 45, 44789
Bochum
Tel.: +49 234 298 41 71 Fax: +49 234 298 41 72
E-mail: dueckers@soft-xpansion.com