Mahlzeit

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:27:20AM -0400, dave engberg wrote:
> Has anyone developed MUSCLE drivers for contactless readers/antennas such
> as Gemplus's GCA680?

MUSCLE implements PC/SC, which is targeted for contact based smart cards.
So the GCA680, which is btw. a MIFARE reader, has two properties which
makes is a bit difficult to use PC/SC with it:

1) The cards are not smart cards but prorietary memory cards with some
   security logic. So there are no APDUs which could be sent to the card.
   It would be possible to define APDUs which are interpreded by the
   reader(driver) like in the CT-BCS specs, but there is no standard.

2) The cards are not contact based but contactless. There is e.g. no
   slot. One way to specify a card could be to give the driver a
   card ID prefix and ask for a proper card for it. Another way could
   be to interate through them until a card with the correct content
   is found. Both is AFAIK not supported by the current PC/SC.

Mahlzeit
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