Hi again,

The crystal clock embedded in the reader also has an influence on transfer speed
(and on card processing speed if the card is old).

Regards
Sebastien

Le 08/09/2011 13:56, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit :
> 2011/9/8 Umberto Rustichelli aka Ubi <[email protected]>:
>> Humm... the next question is required by my boss, and I'd like to know,
>> too... :)
>>
>> The scenario is this one: the smart cards in use belong to the same family
>> (InCard InCrypto v2) of others that we commonly use without this glitch,
>> just they are more recent.
>> The reader is totally different from the one we commonly use, that is
>> no issue: Omnykey 3121 + old InCrypto (serial 100...)
>> with issue: ACR38 + new InCrytpo (serial 700...)
> The Omnykey 3121 [1] is an APDU reader and the T=1 protocol is
> implemented by the reader.
> The ACR38U [2] is a TPDU reader and the T=1 is implemeted by the
> driver (with the logs you see).
>
>> We're going to perform some tests, but regarding the negotiated time out,
>> which part is responsible for that? What does it depend on?
>> Reader? SW? Smart card? Is the smart card aware if the time required to
>> perform operations?
>> Can I change the timeout via some configuration file (our logs are filled up
>> of this message)?
>> As a rule of thumb, is it possible that the reader is responsible for the
>> slowdown, or is it never the culprit?
> I don't want to go into details. If you want more information you
> should read ISO 7816-3.
>
> Have you _measured_ a slowdown? What are the numbers?
>
> Note that readers are _not_ equivalent. Some readers are faster than
> others. Have a look at [3] with readers sorted by dwMaxDataRate.
>
> Bye
>
> [1] http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid/readers/CardMan3121.txt
> [2] http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid/readers/ACR38U-CCID.txt
> [3] http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid/dwMaxDataRate.html
>

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