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Nevertheless, the real situation today is that your application may have to be aware of the smart card reader with which it is communicating. What is worse is that there are smart card readers on the market that only handle particular cards. Unless you have a compelling reason to do so, you should avoid reader-specific SDKs and APIs and use general-purpose smart card access interfaces such as PC/SC (see Table 6.4).
Product | Company | Telephone | WWW | |
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ACR Reader | AND | +31 10 4367100 | www.and.nl | marissa@and.nl |
ACR20 | Advanced Card Systems | +852 279-54877 | www.acs.com.hk | info@acs.com.hk |
ASESoft | Aladdin Knowledge Systems | +972 3 636 2222 | www.aks.com | sales@aks.com |
E-Key Readers | ADC Technologies | +65 743 8088 | www.adc.com.sg | msg@adc.com.sg |
G80-1500 Keyboard | Cherry Electrical Products | +1 847 662-9200 | www.cherrycorpwebmaster.com | @cherrycorp.com |
SmarTLP | Bull CP8 | www.cp8.bull.net | ||
Smart Card Reader Library | Protekila | +90 212261 01 63 | www.protekila.com.tr | info@protekila.com.tr |
SmartOS | SCM Microsystems | +1 408 370-4888 | www.scmmicro.com | adapt@scmmicro.com |
SmartPort | Tritheim Technologies | +1 813 943-8684 | www.tritheim.com | tech@tritheim.com |
SwapSmart SDK | SCM Microsystems | +1 408 370-4888 | www.scmmicro.com | adapt@scmmicro.com |
Value Checker Plus | OKI | +1 508 460-8621 | www.oap.oki.com | digitalmoney@oki.com |
The APIs described in the following sections give a sense of how your application program views a reader and a card combination, and how various vendors have dealt with the problem of having two active elementsthe reader and the cardat the other end of the communication line.
Aladdin ASESoft Microprocessor APIs
The Aladdin reader can handle ISO 7816 microprocessor cards as well as I2C memory cards, both protected and unprotected. The Aladdin Smartcard Environment (ASE) development kit, ASESoft, provides two APIs to microprocessor cards in a number of different languages including BASIC, Pascal, and C. The first API supports file and password manipulation functions, but only for Aladdins CC1, CP1, and CG2 microprocessor cards. The second simply passes APDUs to and catches APDUs from any ISO 7816 card.
The functions on the file and password interface are
The 7816 interface works with any 7816 card. The functions on this simpler API are
The Aladdin SDK comes with four modest card editor utilities for memory and microprocessor cards. These let you examine and alter the contents of these cards.
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