At 20:00 08/02/2008 +0100, chrysn wrote:
[...]
now my question is: is there a reliable way of telling which type of card
a card is (ie, PGP card / bank card / ecard (austrian health system)
/ whatever other card) without having to send commands special to the
respective types that might potentially do bad things on other cards?
no there is no comprehensive list of ATR (and except easy cases, an ATR
does not describe a card content).
if your wish is to provide a generic notifier and/or an UI tool used as
unique control panel, you can (just) define a way to let third parties (who
provide actual cards) to register their ATR on your list, optionally with
some APDU to transmit in order to test the card (for instance: does the
card actually contain the applet with a given AID), and provide some
callbacks to a) call a 3rd party service or b) obtain some information from
a 3rd party service in order to display them in your UI'ed tool.
Sylvain.
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