Am Samstag 20 August 2011, 09:34:21 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: > On 08/18/2011 11:11 AM, Hans Witvliet wrote: > > 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? > > These cards typically support the EMV protocol (or a subset). They > have the ability to perform RSA and 3DES, so in theory there could > be a vendor (or manufacturer) that releases a PKCS #11 module that > allows you to access them. However, without it the operations > available to an EMV card are not sufficient to "emulate" PKCS #11 > (and be used in other than banking applications).
IIRC for EMV protocoll you need to hand in the amount of money you want to deduct, wether you want offline or online transactions, the service code of the terminal (i.e. atm or store or ...) etc. that doesn't map well to pkcs#11. Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
