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From: Antranig Basman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Martori Vilardeb�, Manuel ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [opencard-admin] [OCF] Where can I get a IBM MFC card?
>[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.
...
yes, i have to agree with you. after several emails to comcard finally they
sent me some card samples - uninitialized. and of course without software or
any further information. so i wrote several further emails to get
information from comcard about software for initialization. but i didn't get
any response. so i abandoned any attempts to get information from them.
after some time of searching the web, i found a IBM redbook (sg245239) :
SmartCard Case Study. There they used a SmartCard Development Toolkit from
IBM. so i wrote an email to the pervasive computing department of IBM to ask
where to get this software. i got as an answer that IBM no longer develops
smartcard solutions and this software is no longer available. and i should
contact comcard for further information :-(.
now i started working with GemPlus GPK8000 with their alpha version of
CardServices. and they are really cooperative. they sent me initialized card
samples. and they respond to bug-reports very quickly.
since i need a cryptographic smartcard for opencard, there is no alternative
for me (at least no one that i can use).
Karl Scheibelhofer
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Karl Scheibelhofer, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK)
at Technical University of Graz, Austria, http://www.iaik.at
Phone: (+43) (316) 873-5540
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