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Hardware Security SDK

An SDK for supporting security keys and smartcards on Android. Use cases include:

  • WebAuthn/FIDO2 passwordless logins
  • FIDO U2F Two-Factor Authentication
  • SSH Authentication using OpenPGP/PIV cards
  • Personal Identity Verification (PIV)
  • Full app database encryption using external hardware

Documentation

Code examples and documentation can be found on our developer page at hwsecurity.dev/docs.

Open Source

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
de.cotech:hwsecurity-sshj 14

Notice

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

Maven/NuGet Repositories

For paying customers, we provide an official Maven and NuGet repository:

There is also an unofficial Maven repository for open source projects using the SDK under 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.

Commercial License

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.

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