[Pcsclite-muscle] Extended Length APDU and T=0

Ludovic Rousseau ludovic.rousseau at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 08:09:49 EST 2020


Le mar. 3 nov. 2020 à 14:01, Luciano Checchinato
<l.checchinato at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
> I've been addressed here to get qualified informations on  the stack
> of standards and implementations which power smart cards on a PC
> (windows/linux/macOS)
>
> The topic is APDU extended lengths, in T=0 protocol.
>
> Theoretically an ISO7816-3 card can accept extAPDU in T=0 protocol,
> via ENVELOPE short commands and GET RESPONSE chained commands. On ICC
> side this is correctly managed by a Javacard VM.
> On IFD side, I am not able to understand who has to do what in a PCSC
> environment:
> 1. is CCID driver in charge of transforming the extAPDU in the
> sequence of TPDU ?
> 2. is responsibility of the IFD Handler?
> 3. is responsibility of the final PCSC application?
>
> Then, I have read in PCSC#3 that in T=0, only APDU case 1,2,3 short
> are supported (4.3.2.1 Data Exchange with the ICC). Is it correct to
> say that with a PCSC reader, in T=0, no APDU extended length is
> possible? Or are they possible by creating TPDU at application level?

On Unix (pcsc-lite + my CCID driver) the ENVELOPE + GET RESPONSE
commands are handled by the application itself.

> All these questions because I have an Extended Length test applet not
> working as I expect with  my reader.

What is your environment?
Unix? Windows? etc.

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau



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