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GlobalPlatformPro
Java2015–2022
martinpaljak / GlobalPlatformPro

GlobalPlatformPro

Manage applets and keys on JavaCard-s like a pro 🌐 🔐

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What it is

Manage applets and keys on JavaCard-s like a pro 🌐 🔐

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-09-02 06:54:38 UTC to 2022-12-20 16:54:10 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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superuser2·Sep 2, 2015
So it turns out the story is less grim: you can buy a blank JavaCard [0] and use GlobalPlatformPro [1] to load arbitrary applets. You can load gpgapplet, isoApplet, MuscleApplet, or any other JavaCard crypto software you like. This will be then be compatible with client-side software like OpenSC [2], at which point you get generic PKCS#11 or GPG functionality from it. You can get FIPS 140-2 Level 3 cards for, like, $11. Apparently there is some difficulty in correctly unlocking the card for applet loading, [0] https://github.com/martinpaljak/GlobalPlatformPro/tree/maste... [1] https://github.com/martinpaljak/GlobalPlatformPro I'll let you know how it goes :).
In Ask HN: Why aren't there cheap, available smartcards?

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