The ISO standarts are effectively not available in electronic version.
Nevertheless what is available is documentation like EMV card
specification which explains how data is organized
within a smartcard with many reference to ISO 7816-4.
Sorry for this mistake.
Peter W Tomlinson wrote:
> Gregory,
>
> At this point, one has to say that ISO standards are copyright,
> so that any electronic copy found on the web is at best a pirate
> copy and may be a paraphrase (rewritten by someone to try to
> avoid copyright infringement). This copyright problem, which is a
> way for the national standards bodies to make money by selling
> the standards, causes many problems in the smart card
> industry, because there isn't any good low level description of
> the 7816 type of technology.
>
> I have not read the OCF book, so can the authors of the book
> help?
>
> The basic structure of the data in a card is a tree structure, and
> the applications are just files in the tree. 7816-4 has the basic
> inter-industry commands for accessing the files, and accessing
> a file containing an application should cause that app to run.
> Once the app is running, app-specific commands can then be
> sent to the card, and they will be given to the app. Thus the app
> works on a 'command response' basis: when it has finished
> processing a command, it waits for the next one.
>
> Of course, the app may have some housekeeping to do, and the
> card may have internal mechanisms (in the card's so-called
> operating system) to start these functions.
>
> Peter Tomlinson
> Iosis, Bristol, UK
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> From: GREGORY LE GUEN
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> Organization: Alliance Qualite Logiciel
> To: Hennie Pieterse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [OCF] Tutorial
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> Date forwarded: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:07:41 +0100 (CET)
>
> Hi Hennie,
>
> In ISO 7816/4 you will find what you need about data storage
> and more...
>
> I think there is an electronic version somewhere on the web but i
> don't
> remenber where exactly...
>
> Hennie Pieterse wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Doe's someone know of or have a electronic guide to
> programming smart card
> > apps? Something that start at the basics and explain how the
> whole thing
> > works, especially data storage.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
PS : Hennie try http://www.emvco.com for EMV card specifications.
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