Hi Michael,

Thanks! that worked with my nfcA cards!
But when I use it with my nfcB cards, I am getting a "67 00" (protocol
error?)

Appreciate your help,
Priti

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Michael Roland <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> > What exactly is low level access?
>
> With low-level access (as compared to APDU based access) I mean some
> vendor specific (proprietary) protocol according to the ISO/IEC 14443-3
> standard. Thus, instead of sending high-level APDU commands a more
> simple protocol is used (such a protocol is for example the MIFARE
> Ultralight and the MIFARE Classic command-set).
>
> > How do I send/receive nfcA/nfcB commands then?
>
> For NfcA (e.g. MIFARE Ultralight) you would simply retrieve an NfcA object:
>
>  NfcA myTag = NfcA.getTag(tag);
>
> And then transceive low-level commands with transceive() method. E.g.
>
>  byte[] data = myTag.transceive(new byte[]{ (byte)0x30, (byte)0x00 });
>
> would retrieve the first 16 bytes of data from an MIFARE Ultralight tag.
>
>
> But as you suggested you want to transfer APDUs, instead of getting an
> NfcA object you would want to get an IsoDep object for the tag. This
> object wraps an APDU-based (ISO/IEC 14443-4 & ISO/IEC 7816-4) connection:
>
>  IsoDep myCard = IsoDep.getTag(tag);
>
> The transceive() method then allows you to directly transmit command
> APDUs to the contactless smart card and returns the response APDU:
>
>  byte[] response = myCard.transceive(command);
>
> Where command could be, for instance, a SELECT(file by DF name) command.
> The following command would select the ICAO electronic passport
> application (AID A0000002471001):
> byte[] command = new byte[]{
>  (byte)0x00, /* CLA = 00 (first interindustry command set) */
>  (byte)0xA4, /* INS = A4 (SELECT) */
>  (byte)0x04, /* P1  = 04 (select file by DF name) */
>  (byte)0x0C, /* P2  = 0C (first or only file; no FCI) */
>  (byte)0x07, /* Lc  = 7  (data/AID has 7 bytes) */
>  /* AID = A0000002471001: */
>  (byte)0xA0, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x00, (byte)0x02,
>  (byte)0x47, (byte)0x10, (byte)0x01
> };
>
> As a response you would get e.g. status code 9000 if the applet was
> found on the card.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
>
>

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