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Note: OpenHBCI is now outdated and no longer maintained. The successor of OpenHBCI is the library family AqBanking/AqHBCI, written by the same authors as the successful OpenHBCI library, released since August 2004. Please go to AqBanking for more information.

The following information refers to the old, unmaintained OpenHBCI library:

Supported features

OpenHBCI supports almost all features needed for the account management of a home user. OpenHBCI supports almost all HBCI 2.01 and 2.1 functionality and the majority of HBCI 2.2 functionality. In particular, the following account actions (Geschäftsvorfälle) are supported by OpenHBCI:

  • Get Account Balance (Saldenabfrage)
  • Get list of Transactions (Abfrage Kontoumsätze)
  • Invoke a Money Transfer (Einzelüberweisung)
  • Issue a Debit Note (Einzellastschrift)
  • Get the list of Standing Orders (Dauerauftragsbestand abrufen)
  • Issue a new Standing Order (Dauerauftragseinrichtung)
  • Delete a Standing Order (Dauerauftragslöschung)
  • and some more for key management (since OpenHBCI-0.9.8)

If you are interested in the API structure for C++ and C: Here is an online version of the API documentation as generated from the source code.

Banks successfully in use

OpenHBCI is successfully in use with the following banks (but a much more exhaustive list is maintained on the LinuxWiki OpenHBCI Page, in German):

  • Deutsche Bank
  • Kreissparkasse Hannover -- and 500 other Sparkasse banks served through the same computing centre
  • Sparkasse Wilhelmshaven
  • Hamburger Sparkasse (Haspa)
  • Volks- und Raiffeisenbank Ergolding eG -- and 400 other Volksbank and Raiffeisen banks served through the same computing centre

Banks that are known to be unsupported

For the following banks, it is known that OpenHBCI cannot support them (reasons below):

  • Advance Bank

Planned features

Complete account actions for the home user. Add more actions for the small business case. Add more actions from HBCI 2.2 like stock trading and investment accounts.

Supported Crypto Modes

The very latest HBCI version from November 2002, HBCI 3.0 (also called FinTS, Financial Transaction Services), defines the following means of authentification and/or encryption:

  • Implemented: DDV chip card (DES-DES)
  • Implemented: RDH floppy disk/harddisk file (RSA-DES)
  • Not implemented: RDH chip card (RSA-DES)
  • Not implemented: PIN/TAN over SSL (since HBCI 3.0)
  • Not implemented: ZKA signature card (since HBCI 3.0)

OpenHBCI currently supports DDV-chipcard and RDH-floppy/file.

The ZKA signature card in HBCI 3.0 would be a replacement for the authentification through older methods. These have not yet been implemented in OpenHBCI since none of the current developers has the necessary devices.

The PIN/TAN authentification over SSL is not yet implemented in OpenHBCI. The current developers lack the time to work on this new part of the specification -- so if you happen to be interested in working on this protocol part, please contact the developers.