History

The ancestor of GlobalPlatformPro is GPJ (Global Platform for SmartCardIO) which is (still) available from http://gpj.sourceforge.net. I started GlobalPlatformPro project because I felt that messing with cryptic script files was not nice and I wanted to have a simple, open source, usable and native-to-the-rest-of-development-environment (Java) toolchain.

Credits (from GPJ):

• Wojciech Mostowski woj@cs.ru.nl,
• Francois Kooman F.Kooman@student.science.ru.nl
• Martijn Oostdijk martijn.oostdijk@gmail.com
• Martin Paljak martin@martinpaljak.net
• Hendrik Tews
• Dusan Kovacevic

Other similar projects (GlobalPlatform toolkits)

• gpj (the grandparent) - http://gpj.sf.net (LGPL)
  • written in Java
  • not maintained
  • harder to use from the command line
  • no new features or standards
• GPShell + globalplatform library - http://sourceforge.net/projects/globalplatform/ (LGPL)
  • written in C
  • often referred to as the de facto open source GlobalPlatform implementation
  • several components need to be compiled and installed before usage
  • requires more complex "script files" and does not provide a direct command line utility
• jcManager - http://www.brokenmill.com/2010/03/java-secure-card-manager/ (LGPL)
  • written in Java
  • has a basic GUI
  • old and not maintained
• gpjNG - https://github.com/SimplyTapp/gpjNG (LGPL)
  • fork of gpj with minor additions, mostly a "script mode" that makes it similar to GPShell
• Ruby smartcard module - http://smartcard.rubyforge.org/classes/Smartcard/Gp/GpCardMixin.html (MIT)
  • written in Ruby
  • does not seem to expose all functionality (key diversification, key change etc)
  • no command line utility
• JGPShell - https://sourceforge.net/projects/jgpshell/ (GPL2)
  • written in Java
  • GPShell-style scripting goal
  • not really usable and also abandoned
• OPAL - https://bitbucket.org/ssd/opal (CeCILL, GPLv2 compatible)
  • written in Java
  • claims to have SCP03 support (but no tested cards)
  • looks "heavy" and over-engineered
  • smoke tests give exceptions and doesn't work on OSX nor Debian.
• gpcomm - https://code.google.com/p/gpcomm/
  • written in Java
  • incomplete and abandoned
• globalplatform.net - https://github.com/sepulo/globalplatform.net
  • written in c#
  • unclear license (missing)
  • only supports SCP01 and SCP02
• asterix - https://github.com/suma12/asterix (LGPL 2.1)
  • written in Python
  • SCP02, SCP03
• LuaGP - https://github.com/bondhan/LuaGP
  • written in Lua
• JCOP tools, RADIII, JCardManager4, JLoad, PyApduTool etc
  • not publicly available cross-platform open source projects and thus not suitable for this comparision