hi,

> I've got a GPK-800 card and a gcr-410 reader and am experimenting with
> reading and writing files to the card. I try creating a 1KB file, writing
> data to it and reading it back, but I get corrupted data.

yes, this is a bug in the card services. i reported it to the responible
persons at gemplus, and they told me that they would fix it soon.
if you need it very urgently, i can send you a version that seems to work.

> I've ordered a book,
>   1 "Smart Card Handbook"
>   Wolfgang Rankl, Wolfgang Effing;
> which I hope explains generla smart-card things that you are basically
> assumed to know about when readng the java documentation (what is a cyclic
> file? what file ID's are legal?), but this is so weird that I thought I'd
> ask straight away.

i have this book, and i like it. it gives a very comprehensive overview on
smart card technologies.

regards

  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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