Am Freitag 19 August 2011, 11:56:13 schrieb Martin Paljak: > Hello, > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:11 , Hans Witvliet wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Perhaps a ludicreous question, but i post it anyway... > > > > Some creditcard companies or banks supply their customer with cards plus > > pin-code in order to identify themselfs during financial transactions. > > > >> From my focus i presume these look like ordinary smartcards. > > > > Can these cards also be used for anything else? > > > > Did anybody ever looked at them this way? > > It is not that i would try to temper with them, but if these are safe > > enough to be trusted by a bank, why could i not use them for instance, > > for setting up a vpn? > > You might want to study EMV DDA > > http://www.openscdp.org/scripts/tutorial/emv/dda.html
SDA/DDA is a mechanism used for authenticating credit card transactions in the card / terminal / processor setup (or for offline use: card/terminal). the new mechanism for online banking with chipcard, reader and pin are something different - thought they might be build on top of EMV spec. so reading up on DDA won't help you. Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
