Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > Thomas Harning Jr. wrote: > >> The unidentified pin is the user pin initialized when you initialize the >> card. The card can lock up if it's entered wrong a few times, but since >> its a normal user PIN, you could reset the card or use unblock and it'd >> be ok. > > > ok, in any case we need to document how this pin is set, unblocked and > changed, how many tries are on it, what happends if those tries are > exceeded and so on. > >> Yeah... using that as a transport key would make sense. > > or maybe as security officer pin? what can you do if you know > tht pin, but not the other pins?
Nothing. The transport is only necessary to format the card. So nobody can steal your card and use it for himself. I don't know of any other use for it. The card can only be formatted once. MuscleTool ist the tool for doing this. > > if a transport key is locked, you can throw away cryptoflex cards > for example. with muscle you could delete the applet and install > it again? You can always delete and install applets on a GlobalPlatform card, if you have the GlobalPlatform keys, this has nothing to do with the MuscleCard applet. > > the transport key (e.g. of cryptoflex cards) has no big secret: > all you can do is erase the card - as far as I know - but not access > or change the so pin, use the key or anything, without knowing the > user or so pin. how does this compare to this pin with muscle? See above. Regards, Karsten > > Regards, Andreas > _______________________________________________ > Muscle mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
