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I need to buy a few smart cards (under 5) for some development work. I've got readers and I'd prefer not to buy one of the expensive SDK's offered by several companies.

I'm hoping to get some help from you folks on a few questions

Background: for the card I need to do public/private key encryption. I'd like for the card to hold the private key and be able to decrypt a small encrypted blob that is passed. I'm hoping to find a solution that works really well in Windows, something that has in box drivers and API's written and supported by Microsoft.

  1. what cards work really well with Windows?
  2. where can I get low volumes of cards? searching around on the Internet has me confused

maybe someone knows of an FAQ?

thanks!

-CG