[Vladimir Beker] Thanks a lot for your answers. Some of them helped to me.

> > auth. object, I cannot do it. If I use key object, I cannot represent
> > other password's attributes (such as password change date, min/max
> > password length, unblocking issues etc. Is there any way to combine
> > these things?
> 
> of course if you use a challenge and response authentication based
> on a symm (or asymm.) cipher key attributes like min/max length are
> useless as the key length is determined by the underlying cipher

 [Vladimir Beker] This is obvious. What I wanted to do is the following: from 
the viewpoint of the user there is password (since I speak about human client). 
The password is converted to the encryption key (for instance, according to 
PKCS#5 - and this key is used for real authentication. This way I prevent 
eavesdropping and replay attacks by using challenge-response (alternatively I 
need SM but it supposes that both sides already share some secret). However 
from the user point of view, it is password, so min/max length and other 
password attributes still take place. 
> 
> > 2. When encoding access conditions of some object (which are in fact
> > references to auth. objects) how can I encode ALWAYS and NEVER?
> 
> ALWAYS == no ac == no authId in the CommonObjectAttributes
> (NEVER, don't know perhaps an invalid authId, but personally I don't
> the necessity for this)
[Vladimir Beker] ALWAYS - you seem to be right. NEVER - well, I would like to 
define access condition for object removal. 

> 
> > Does it mean that I must support all of these options
> > since other applications may choose any of them when creating objects on
> > the card?
> 
> if you want other libraries to write on your card the answer is yes
[Vladimir Beker] And if I want to operate with cards prepared by other 
libraries on the smartcard of the type known to me?
The source of these last questions are very simple: if we don't get 
interoperability what's the reason to follow standard?

Thanks
Vladimir
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