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--- Antranig Basman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >From Comcard: http://www.comcard.de
> >
> > Uwe
>
> I think the true situation with MFC cards requires
> to be investigated.
> You, Mr. Hansmann, and Mr. Schaeck, have sought to
> assure posters to this
> list that the MFC family of cards is alive and well,
> and actively
> developed and supported by Comcard.
> This is far from the case. Over the last month I
> have mailed both of you,
> this list, Comcard, IBM itself, and individual
> members of this list in
> search of the information required to use MFC cards,
> and I have discovered
> the following:
> a) Of all members of this list who have tried to
> initialise MFC cards who
> responded to me, none have ever succeeded, and have
> abandoned them in
> favour of cards from another manufacturer.
> b) IBM and members of IBM keep complete silence
> about this issue - Mr.
> Hansmann forwarded me some information a few months
> ago, but it was
> inadequate to even begin to initialise the cards
> correctly.
> c) Comcard, at length, admitted to me that THEY
> THEMSELVES do not have
> the information required to initialise these cards,
> because IBM has
> not supplied it to them!
>
> In short, I would strongly advise anyone considering
> working with MFC
> cards to first thoroughly ensure that they have
> access to all commands
> necessary to create a valid MF on the card, and have
> had them fully tested,
> or that they have cards somehow sent to them already
> initialised.
>
> For my own part, my strong suspicion is that MFC
> cards at the (current) 4.21
> level either contain some serious flaw which
> prevents them from ever being
> used, or that the information required to initialise
> them by creating a
> valid Master File (MF) has somehow been destroyed
> and is no longer available.
>
> I challenge IBM employees and others on this list to
> disprove this assertion
> by either publishing or forwarding to me a set of
> APDUs that will fully
> initialise and personalise an MFC 4.21 card. I have
> wasted over six
> weeks searching for this information from all
> relevant parties; I have
> been led to conclude that it is not available, and
> that the MFC platform
> is no longer viable.
>
> Antranig Basman.
>
>
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