[Pcsclite-muscle] HELP! Any experience on smart card chip wearing?

[Umberto Rustichelli]

On 09/08/2014 12:48 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>> On 08 Sep 2014, at 12:04, Umberto Rustichelli <umberto.rustichelli at gt50.org> wrote:
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>> On 09/08/2014 11:49 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>>>> On 08 Sep 2014, at 11:00, Umberto Rustichelli <umberto.rustichelli at gt50.org> wrote:
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>>>> First of all, thanks everybody for the prompt help.
>>>> Maybe I should first notice that we ran a test with >2 million signatures befre going into production but with different cards: we could not test the customer's cards because we don't have them. The family is InCard but cards families are so... crowded?
>>> Can you extract a bit more detail about the card/ATR/firmware ? We?ve found the STMicroelectronics cards quite reliable; and Napoli and Catania teams quite easy to work with when it came to technical issues/bugs.
>> This is the card ATR. For signature operations, this family of cards seems to be quite reliable by us, indeed:
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>> 3b:ff:18:00:ff:81:31:fe:55:00:6b:02:09:03:03:01:01:01:43:4e:53:10:31:80:9d
> Ok - 	that looks like the sort of Italian Chamber of Commerce/regione calabria cards we?ve seen - those are STMicro, Incard - and pretty much all we have handled are on InCrypto34 V2. As far as we know - they use the st19xl34p - and very similar models are in use in Germany in the medical sector as well.
>
> For what it is worth - we find that we can do, using SPR532 readers, virtually unlimited signs with these; using a single C_Login/session per power-up.

I agree that unlikely there is an issue with readers, anyway we settled 
on Gemalto-branded readers, the look is transparent as in
http://www.gemalto.com/products/usb_shell_token_v2/index.html
and it is recognized as "Gemplus GemPC Key".