MUSCLE Care to help a newbie in smartcard programming?

[Adrian Muscalu]

Hi, Please excuse my ignorance, I am not very familiar with smartcard programming stuff; I'm not even sure that this list is the right place to post my questions... but I'll do it anyway. Here are the facts: my boss gave me a smartcard reader (CardMan 2011), a card (probably a memory card) and told me to make an application using CT-API that should first verify an user input pin with the one stored on the card. At a glance seems very tricky for me because I just managed to play with with CT_init, CT_close and CT_data methods. To het to the point: 1) How can I perform a pin validation? 2) Can I retrieve the PIN and make a comparison by myself with the user enetered one or is the card that makes it? 3) The card seems to have stored in it three cryptographic keys. How can I get them? If if has any relevance, I'll use Windows NT and Java/JNI/C++ Thank you in advance for your help, Adrian