Digital signatures generating device for e.g. personal computer, has smart card read/write device for connecting smart card, and interface that is connected to computer by protocol that is provided in operating system of computer

摘要

The device has a smart card read/write device (9) for connecting a smart card. An interface is connected to a computer by a protocol that is provided in an operating system of the computer. A compact disc (CD) ROM drive (1) is provided with a hypertext transfer protocol responder (4), and a removable data carrier (2) is provided with an interface storage area (5) for the data exchange between the device and the computer. A software (6) controls functions of the device based on configuration data (7) and communicates between the storage area and the read/write device.