[android-developers] Re: Does Android support APDUConnection as known from JSR 177?

2009-02-24 Thread Spongebob.Squarepants
Hi Anders, thanks for the answer. On the other hand there are things like "Remote SIM Access" in the Nokia world, which allow one to ask the SIM for PIN verification, call the AUTHENTICATE algorithms and attach the SIM phone book. And there are various SIM card reader solutions out, which give

[android-developers] Re: Does Android support APDUConnection as known from JSR 177?

2009-02-23 Thread Anders Rundgren
Hi Neil, Sorry about the banning. Now to the SIM issues. I have been working with mobile phone auth solutions since 1998 and it has been said that the SIM is the way to go. For various reasons, and in particular due to a lack of a business model, operators have often used the cheapest SIMs they

[android-developers] Re: Does Android support APDUConnection as known from JSR 177?

2009-02-23 Thread spongebob.squarepants
Hi Anders, many thanks for answering. I don't know what happened, but over the weekend I seemed to blow my rather old account Neil.Young, so it is BANNED now (I did never appear such things :() and I don't know, why. What went wrong with my subscription? So I'm forced to use this rediculous acco

[android-developers] Re: Does Android support APDUConnection as known from JSR 177?

2009-02-23 Thread Anders Rundgren
I don't know but JSR 177 seems to be a J2ME-related JSR. Android has (in theory) a JCE-based API that does what JSR 177 does and more. The problem is really that there is no link between the JCE and the SIM if that's what you are looking for. Personally I think using the SIM with JSR 177 is a bad