Brief Introduction to CloudFoxy Technical Specification

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CloudFoxy is a hardware platform enabling web access to smartcards. It has been designed as a high-performance, reliable, and scalable platform. It provides reliable access to high-security hardware processors (FIPS140-2 L3/4, Common Criterial EAL5+) to cloud applications.

CloudFoxy provides TCP/IP interface, which can be accessed directly, or via an additional RESTful server - FoxyRest. All our software is provided as open-source. You can also use FoxyRest the same way you’d use tools GlobalPlatform Pro and APDU4j developed by Martin Paljak. The only difference is an additional parameter specifying a Java driver for CloudFoxy:
 
An example of a whole gp command to list applets installed on a smartcard /192.168.42.10@2:

java -jar gp.jar -d -l -terminals ./driver.jar:main_class:tcp%3A%2F%2F192.168.42.10 -r /192.168.42.10@2 -v

The driver is available from our GitHub repository at:
https://gitlab.com/cloudfoxy/FoxyRest/tree/master/driver

Use and Integration

Cloud Foxy can be used directly from Java applications, with a simple modification of a driver.

terminalFactory = TerminalFactory.getInstance("PC/SC", "bin@tcp://192.168.42.0/27", new smarthsmfast.simona.Simonaio());
terminals = terminalFactory.terminals();
List<CardTerminal> readersList = terminals.list();

Replacing initalization with a default Java driver:

terminalFactory = TerminalFactory.getDefault();
terminals = terminalFactory.terminals();
List<CardTerminal> readersList = terminals.list();

You can also use an integration with JSignPDF for PDF document signing, or with an APDUPlay Windows library to enabling legacy Windows applications for Cloud Foxy