Hello !
You are right. Siemens/ Infineon cards are hardly available. I just called
Schlumberger and they said to me cards are only selled to banks and big companys which
buy about >100 cards. So what do these people think??
Where did you buy cards??
The Schlumberger webpage is rather a bad idea as crypto cards only sold to US and
Canada.
Hopefully G&D will be better than others.
Actually I prefer Java Cards to BASIC cards.
Greetings
JH
> Mahlzeit
>
>
> Danny Kumamoto wrote:
> > Matthias Bruestle wrote:
> >
> > > If somebody knows a source of cards in very small quantities
> > > and/or card documentation, please, please let me know. Also
> > > a source for a cheap (or maybe not expensive) reader with a
> > > PIN pad and documentation is very welcome.
> >
> > Have you looked at our www.cardstore.slb.com? We sell both crypto
> > (non-JC) and Java Card cards in quantities of 5. Most of our docs are
> > online (or will be soon), as well.
>
> I once ordered there, but this site has some disadvantages.
>
> 1) Cryptocards can not be ordered outside the USA/Canada.
>
> 2) The transport makes them really expensive for me.
>
> 3) It was a real chaos ordering there. It was worse than the ordering
> of my PC in 1992. (And there is no contact information on this site.)
>
> (And I still don't know how the Stamped commands work, if 3DES MAC
> commands are possible on the Cryptoflex and why Encrypt 3DES Int Auth
> and Decrypt 3DES Int Auth with the previous result does not result
> in the starting value while it does with DES.)
>
> But a good point for the Cyberflex is the java compiler for Linux.
>
> IMO very good is the site of Zeitcontrol. SDKs and detailed documentation
> for download and cards can be ordered in any quantity. If only I knew
> BASIC better.
>
> A very bad example is SIEMENS (or how it is called now) where it is
> impossible to get documentation.
>
> I called last year (or maybe the year before) about 20 firms makeing
> chips/cards/etc. The result was, that I could have from one firm
> cards without documentation and I heard things like "You want what?
> 10 cards? Ha! Ha! Ha!". A telephone orgy this year wasn't better.
> Gemplus would have sold me an expensive GemXpresso Development Kit.
> That was all.
>
> Sorry for the little rant.
>
>
> Mahlzeit
>
> endergone Zwiebeltuete
>
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