GlobalPlatform is a standard for handling applets, keys and security of smart cards (see www.globalplatform.org).

GPShell (GlobalPlatform Shell) is a script interpreter which talks to a smart card. It is written on top of the GlobalPlatform library, which was developed by Karsten Ohme. It uses smart card communication protocols ISO-7816-4 and OpenPlatform 2.0.1 and GlobalPlatform 2.1.1. It can establish a secure channel with a smart card, load, instantiate, delete, list applets on a smart card.

This package constains to gpshell command-line tool.