----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tom McKearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OCF] Re: Question on CardServices
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for the response. Doesn't that seem like a lot of work for someone
who
> just wants to use a smartcard in my programs? Bringing up
JavaCardCardService
> was a mistake (since I'm not trying to write JavaCard application, I just
> wanted to test if the iButton OCF classes supported the service)-- I'm
> interested in the SignatureCardService.
i have the same problem. it seems that there is really no other vendor
supplying usable CardServices for its smart cards than IBM. i have heard
that GemPlus is working on CardServices for its GPK8000 card, but i haven't
seen any yet.
the support for CardServices of the vendors is really bad. without
CardServices OCF isn't worth the half it could be. and i'm not interested to
write all CardServices for my own since there are almost always the standard
card services defined in OCF. and these are up to the vendor to make. even
if you write them using JavaCard you can not use them on every JavaCard
since every JavaCard has a different capabilities.
>
> I guess this really isn't a question for OCF (as it provides a framework
for
> writing card and terminal independent applications), but more for vendor
> support of OCF.
yes it sould be. but it seems to me that most vendors think: we support
JavaCard now - so write your CardServices for your own dear developer.
i really consider to write a SignatureService using JavaCard and for example
iButton. but i saw that not all functionality is accessible from JavaCard
applets. e.g. a random number generator, prim testing, key generation, ...
but these functions seem to be accessible from outside sending APDUs to the
iButton.
>
> Am I right on that (since I'm fairly new to smart card programming)?
>
so am i. it's not easy to get good smart cards. i even couldn't get IBM's
MFC 4 cards. i contacted a company (ComCard) some IBM developers told me
several times, but i didn't get a response at all.
Karl
--
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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