[Muscle] Impossible to crypt using MuscleTool

sferey s.ferey at wanadoo.fr
Fri Mar 21 10:04:24 PDT 2008


Hi Amanda,

Great! I will check that log, and back soon with analysis.


Regarding the Get Challenge: a part of the response was in my comment 
regarding the ACL.
The 8 bits of the internal security state are described as "strong 
authentication" as opposed to the 8 lower bits that store PIN 
verification results.

A "strong authentication" is symmetric key based and consists in a Get 
Challenge, External Authenticate sequence (the terminal shall requests a 
challenge and send it ciphered with a symm. key in the data field of a 
subsequent External Auth. command).

But the 0.9.8 applet does not support such "strong authentication" ! 
meaning that both Get Challenge & External Auth commands return 
"instruction not supported" '6D00'.

OOH, Get Challenge is not supposed to participate to any data encryption 
/ decryption scheme. So you should not be worried about that 
(unsupported) command.

Cheers,
Sylvain.


Amanda Ortega a écrit :
> The sequence of APDUS obtained through pcscd -fda to the same sequence 
> of encrypt/decrypt is:
>





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