Extended length APDU solved for Cardman

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jun 30 12:55:27 CEST 2009


On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:22, ludovic.rousseau at free.fr said:

> You are using a proprietary command to switch the reader in TPDU mode. Is it documented somewhere by Omnikey?

As usual with Omnikey stuff: Docs are hard to get and they are not eager
to help developers to get their hadware working.

> You should not have to play this game with the Kobil KAAN readers. They are declared as "Short and Extended APDU level exchange".

I had severe problems with mine; according to people working with the
Windows driver it is known that these readers have problems with
extended length APDUs.  I have not used mine for weeks; I'll try it
later.

> I am surprised you invested so much energy in supporting (limited) readers instead of using existing TPDU or extended APDU readers.

The driving force is that we have the new OpenPGP cards and can't use
them with laptops.  The CM4040 pccard reader is widely used and I
suggested it in the past to many folks; they are now using it on a daily
base (including me).

> You can also see the page [1] to know the readers you should recommand for use with the OpenPGP card.

I know ;-)


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz.




More information about the Gnupg-devel mailing list