[Muscle] How can I know what's the type of a card through it's ATR?

[Michael Bender]

On Jan 12, 2009, at 12:43 AM, lion wrote:

> Hi, All
> I am wirting a smartcard driver, the ATR is like below.
> ----ATR:   TS is 3b
>                  T0  is 6c
>                  TB1 is 0
>                 TC1 is 2
>                 history char is : 36 61 86 38 4b 8c 13 4 62 3 59 8a
>
>          Then,how can I know what's the type of my card(such as the  
> producer..)
>
> I have try to find it at http://www.sun-rays.org/lib/smartcard_list.txt,but 
>  have no answer.
>
> I want to do this, because i always get failure when selecting the  
> MF file
> I try to get more information about my card.

Well my experience is that you can't always tell what type of card you  
have just
by looking at the ATR, which is why I created the SwapDrop language  
that Sun Ray
uses to run "smartcard config files" that use heuristics to identify a  
card that is
inserted into the Sun Ray's internal smartcard reader. The config  
files may use
the ATR information (usually the history bytes and/or the length) as  
one of the tests
to try to identify a card. Other tests include checking for the  
presence of specific
directories and/or files, checking for the length and/or contents of a  
particular file,
trying to select one or more applets (on cards that support applets)  
and issuing
specific APDUs and noting the response from the card.

I had a look on Ludovic's list here:

http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-tools/smartcard_list.txt

but I couldn't find an ATR that matches your card's ATR.

Try playing with Google to see if someone else has posted the ATR or  
an ATR
that is similar to yours.

Do you have any more information on the card that you want to find out  
about?
You can try some common APDUs that work with OpenPlatform JavaCard  
cards,
perhaps you have one of those cards. Or maybe scan an image of the  
card (if
it's not a blank white card ;-) and post it somewhere for people to  
look at. Even if
it is a blank white card, you can usually tell the manufacturer of the  
chip from the
contact pad design, so that might be a good lead.

mike