This business of recognising a card is realy serious one here in Europe, as
there is a move to interoperability for personal users of smart cards: all
type of cards to be accepted everywhere.
We have an 'Initiative' called e-Europe, which is all about the ubiquity of
Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Within e-Europe is e-Europe
Smartcards, which has spawned about a dozen Working Groups called
Trailblazers. They have mostly applied for EC funding to develop input to
standardisation processes, but not all have raised the money. In particular,
TB7 on multi-application cards has not raised any money. However, the User
Related Information project has raised some money via CEN/ISSS, and we
started work this week. We are supposed to work in tandem with TB7 in order
to solve the general multi-application card problem as well as describing
how to handle the creation, use, modification and deletion of a dataset that
contains personal preferences about the user interface of an unattended
smart card terminal (plus other information, and extendable in all sorts of
ways).
Maybe we have to solve the general multi-application card problem (how to be
able to do what you want to do, no matter which card platform your
application is hosted by).
In the UK there is an embryo public transport ticketing specification ("ITSO
spec") which requires all transport cards following the ITSO spec to make
freely available, in a standard manner, across an ISO 14443 Proximity
contactless interface, a data record in which is coded the card type, the
security scheme type, and the security keyset reference number. ITSO will
register the relevant data and issue the reference numbers - but, of course,
all the terminals have to have this information and the relevant drivers
installed (not a trivial problem).
As some of us advised Dr David Everett some years ago in relation to Mondex
cards, the card has to look after itself. I saw him today at a meeting in
London, and we mulled over this again. Cards allegedly conforming to ISO
7816-4 usually, unfortunately, do not implement all of the mandatory
commands in that part of the standard, but 'cherry pick' what they want to
implement.
If anyone has any assistance to offer, the CEN/ISSS URI Extended Workshop,
e-Europe Smartcards TB7, and CEN TC224 WG11 will welcome your help.
Regards,
Peter T
Bristol UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: MUSCLE Can I search the smartcard type by the ATR string ?
> Hi Raymond,
> There is no database for ATR. Some smart card can tailor-made ATR
reponses
> for application. You should consult your card supplier to get the meaning
> of them.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Lawrence
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raymond Fung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:27 AM
> Subject: MUSCLE Can I search the smartcard type by the ATR string ?
>
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > This one may be a bit off topic, but can anyone please tell me if there
> > is any searchable database available so that I can look-up the model and
> > make of an unknown smartcard from the ATR string it returns ? Any
> > pointer
> > is highly welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Raymond Fung.
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