Thanks for the information. I was under the impression that the T=CL spec
(ISO/IEC 14443-4 -- http://www.sc17.com/documents/17n1689.ZIP) allowed for
a mapping of APDUs similar to T=1, but I could see why this might be too
new for common usage.

Both Gemplus and Philips sell PC-based ISO 14443 readers, so it should be
possible in theory.

Thanks again

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Matthias Bruestle wrote:

> 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
> endergone Zwiebeltuete

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