Hardware Security SDK

An SDK for Supporting Security Keys and Smartcards on Android

Code examples and documentation can be found on our developer page.

Open Source Release

This repository contains all parts of the Hardware Security SDK that have been released as open source.

This includes the following artifacts of the SDK (cf. overview of all artifacts):

Build Artifact	Min SDK	Rec. SDK
de.cotech:hwsecurity	14
de.cotech:hwsecurity-intent-nfc	14
de.cotech:hwsecurity-intent-usb	14
de.cotech:hwsecurity-fido	14	19
de.cotech:hwsecurity-fido2	14	19
de.cotech:hwsecurity-openpgp	14
de.cotech:hwsecurity-piv	14
de.cotech:hwsecurity-ui	14	19
de.cotech:hwsecurity-ssh	14

Notice

This open source release does not reflect the newest version of the SDK. Some parts are currently not released as GPLv3.

Contributing

Hardware Security SDK is an open source project and we are very happy to accept community contributions.

We will ask you to sign our CLA before your pull request can be merged.

Licensing

You can use our SDK under the terms of the GNU General Public license version 3 or later.

A commercial license can be purchased on hwsecurity.dev/sales.

Buying such a license is mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities involving this program without disclosing the source code of your own applications.