The belgian electronic id card contains two types of data: on the one hand, there's the x.509 keys that can be used by the owner of the card to perform authentication and to make digital signatures; on the other hand, the card contains digital versions of the identity information, digitally signed by the government.

this library allows the user to read out the identity information, to verify the signature, and to verify its certificate against an online crl or similar technology.

to read out the x.509 keys, please see the libbeidlibopensc2 package.

this package contains the debugging symbols for libbeid2.

please read the readme.debian file in the libbeidlibopensc2 package for information on setting up your system so that it can read from smartcards.