TrustBearer Security Key

Windows Installation

If automatic driver installation is enabled, Windows should detect your TrustBearer Security Key when you plug it in, and automatically download the install the drivers needed to use it.

If the driver does not install automatically, you will need to download the ASEDrive IIIe driver from Athena Smartcard Solutions. Extract the ZIP file and run the Setup{VERSION}x86 program (where {VERSION} is a value like "2500" and represents the driver release version).

Mac OS X Installation

In Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, the Athena ASEDrive IIIe reader drivers are already enabled and installed with PC/SC by default. No further installation is necessary.

On Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, the drivers for the TrustBearer Security Key can be downloaded from Athena Smartcard Solutions' driver page. However, Safari has not been tested on Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, so you may have to use Firefox instead.

Linux Installation

To use the TrustBearer Security Key, you will need the PC/SC drivers used by the Athena ASEDrive IIIe smart card reader. If you are using Debian or Ubuntu, you can find these as the libasedrive-usb package in Apt.

Otherwise, you will have to build the drivers from source code. First download the drivers for the ASEDriver IIIe Reader USB from Athena Smartcard Solutions and extract the files. Run ./configure followed by make and make install. You will need the PC/SC Lite development files, usually provided by the distro in a separate package. You will need to restart PC/SC after installation, then just plug the key into a USB port.

(Note: these instructions are for x86 architectures; using another architecture like AMD64 is possible, but requires the use of 32-bit versions of PC/SC Lite and Firefox, plus some more work.)