Yes, indeed.  Insecure messages through secured pipes (secure channels)
vs. secured messages through insecure pipes (secure messages). You can't
tell the difference looking at one message or even a sequence of
messages if the latter are sent using chained commands.  

Why GP created this tempest in a T=0-Pot I'll never understand.  That
said, there are those that claim a difference in kind and can argue
vociferously the advantages of one over the other.  When GP tool GP to
ISO they changed back to the 7816 vocabulary; i.e. secure messaging.

Cheers, Scott

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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:27 PM
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Subject: RE: [Muscle] GlobalPlatform R-MAC



>2) You might want to take a look at ISO/IEC 7816-13 which is
>GlobalPlatform using secure messaging rather than secure channels.  As
>an international standard rather than a proprietary system it may turn
>out to be more germane to managing FIPS 201 cards.

Do I smell one of those those maxist, dialect[r]ical materalism moments,

here? :-)

Channels vs messaging. SSL vs SET. DARPA vs NSA. IETF vs ITU-T/OSI.

Hmmm.

>
>Cheers, Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter
Williams
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:09 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [Muscle] GlobalPlatform R-MAC
>
>
>
>
> >From: Karsten Ohme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: MUSCLE  <[email protected]>
> >To: MUSCLE <[email protected]>
> >Subject: [Muscle] GlobalPlatform R-MAC
> >Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:02:00 +0100
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >The secure channel protocol 02 of the GlobalPlatform specification
> >allows to use a R-Mac (response MAC). In the specification is
mentioned
> >that the R-MAC is applied to all the subsequent command/response
> >messages. Is this really true? Or is the R-MAC only applied to real
> >command APDUs containing data and not to protocol APDUs like Get
> >Response or on errors like Wrong Length (6C,61,...).
> >
> >Are there any cards which support R-MAC?
>
>Yes.
>
>FIPS 201 essentially requires an R-MAC capable SCP - for remote
>management
>of the GCs, as the content silos are instantiated - and rented off to
>other
>agencies/businesses.
>
>I have not personally encountered SCP 02 et al. over T0, in an off the
>shelf
>card.
>
>You might want to investigate SCP.n proposals. Our IBM colleagues may
be
>
>able to faciliate controlled R&D access to GP.next drafts.
>
>In 7816 terms, secure messaging and logical channel support is
>applicable to
>all APDU transfers. A polling response is just a response.
>
>Its more fun to question whether the T0 procedure bytes and time
request
>
>bytes (over USB relays in particular) are secured by the logical
>channel,
>and its binding to secure messaging. One assumes not. One assumes that
>the
>combination of T0 and the more advanced SCPs are really not
>"future-compatible".
>
>
> >Thanks, Karsten
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