I got myself a new identity card.

All new Finnish national personal identity cards are FINEID cards; that is, they are contact smart cards containing two secret keys, one for common authentication and the other for nonrepudiable digital signatures backed by law. In theory I should be able to use it for authenticating myself to my bank web service, and the Electronic Post Office. I thought this was cool so I got myself the hardware (SCR331) for reading these cards.

The beginning was easy. I needed to install openct, opensc and mozilla-opensc. The first two worked out of the box; the last one wouldn’t work with Iceweasel without manual prodding (#409946). I was eventually able to log in to the FINEID test site, but signing stuff does not work (#409948) which means that I am not able to log in to my bank. The post office does not let me log in either, but the cause is unknown (they do not provide any diagnostic messages).

And now mozilla-opensc is causing Iceweasel to freeze in some situations (#409963). I already lost one draft of this post because of that.

Edit: Now I was able to log in to Post Office, after I reinstalled mozilla-opensc. Weird.