ISO/IEC 24727-2:2008
(Main)Identification cards — Integrated circuit card programming interfaces — Part 2: Generic card interface
Identification cards — Integrated circuit card programming interfaces — Part 2: Generic card interface
ISO/IEC 24727-2:2008 defines a generic card interface for integrated circuit cards. This interface is presented as: command-response pairs for interoperability, card and application capability description and determination. ISO/IEC 24727-2:2008 is based on ISO/IEC 7816-4, ISO/IEC 7816-8, ISO/IEC 7816-9, and ISO/IEC 7816-15.
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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 24727-2
First edition
2008-10-01
Identification cards — Integrated circuit
card programming interfaces —
Part 2:
Generic card interface
Cartes d'identification — Interfaces programmables de cartes à puce —
Partie 2: Interface de carte générique
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ISO/IEC 2008
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Contents Page
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions. 1
4 Abbreviated terms . 2
5 Organization for interoperability. 2
5.1 Command-response pairs for interoperability . 2
5.1.1 Command and response encoding. 2
5.1.2 Class byte . 3
5.1.3 Instruction byte . 3
5.1.4 File descriptor byte. 5
5.2 Card states for interoperability . 6
5.3 Status words for interoperability . 7
5.4 Data structures for interoperability. 8
5.5 Card-applications for interoperability. 9
5.5.1 Alpha card-application . 9
5.5.2 Cryptographic information application . 9
6 Capability descriptions . 10
6.1 Card capability description (CCD) . 10
6.2 Application capability description (ACD). 11
6.3 Procedural elements. 11
6.3.1 Model of computation for procedural elements . 12
6.3.2 Use of procedural elements. 12
6.4 Determining the value of capability descriptions. 13
6.4.1 General principle. 13
6.4.2 Determining the value of the CCD. 13
6.4.3 Determining the value of an ACD. 13
Annex A (informative) Profiles for the cryptographic information application on the generic card
interface . 14
A.1 Profile A . 14
A.1.1 EF.CIAInfo. 14
A.1.2 EF.OD . 14
A.1.3 EF.PrKD . 14
A.1.4 EF.PuKD. 14
A.1.5 EF.SKD. 15
A.1.6 EF.CD . 15
A.1.7 EF.AOD . 15
A.1.8 EF.DCOD. 15
Annex B (informative) Instances of profile A. 16
B.1 eSign K Specification . 16
Annex C (normative) Cryptographic information application for card-application service
description. 23
Annex D (informative) Example of cryptographic information application for card-application
service description . 28
Annex E (informative) DID Discovery . 33
Bibliography . 35
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Foreword
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ISO/IEC 24727-2 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 17, Cards and personal identification.
ISO/IEC 24727 consists of the following parts, under the general title Identification cards — Integrated circuit
card programming interfaces:
⎯ Part 1: Architecture
⎯ Part 2: Generic card interface
⎯ Part 3: Application interface
⎯ Part 4: API administration
The following parts are under preparation:
⎯ Part 5: Testing
⎯ Part 6: Registration authority procedures for the authentication protocols for interoperability
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Introduction
ISO/IEC 24727 defines interoperable programming interfaces to integrated circuit cards. Programming
interfaces are defined for all card lifecycle stages and for use with integrated circuit cards.
ISO/IEC 24727 is written with sufficient detail and completeness that independent implementations of each
part are interchangeable and can interoperate with independent implementations of the other parts.
This part of ISO/IEC 24727 specifies a command-level programming interface to contactless integrated circuit
cards and cards with contacts that is a concretization of the concepts, data structures and commands found in
the following documents:
⎯ ISO/IEC 7816-4, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 4: Organization, security and
commands for interchange
⎯ ISO/IEC 7816-8, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 8: Commands for security
operations
⎯ ISO/IEC 7816-9, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 9: Commands for card
management
⎯ ISO/IEC 7816-15, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 15: Cryptographic
information application
⎯ ISO/IEC 20060, Information technology — Open Terminal Architecture (OTA) specification — Virtual
machine specification
The commands and data objects described in this part of ISO/IEC 24727 are consistent with the commands
and data objects found in these documents which will be referred to as the base documents.
This part of ISO/IEC 24727 maximizes the fungibility of independent realizations of its prescriptions. This
property of this part of ISO/IEC 24727 is realized by positing a minimally sufficient subset of the base
standards which realizes their core functionality through the minimization of the number of options provided.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 24727-2:2008(E)
Identification cards — Integrated circuit card programming
interfaces —
Part 2:
Generic card interface
1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 24727 defines a generic card interface for integrated circuit cards. This interface is
presented as:
— command-response pairs for interoperability,
— card and application capability description and determination.
This part of ISO/IEC 24727 is based on ISO/IEC 7816-4, ISO/IEC 7816-8, ISO/IEC 7816-9, and
ISO/IEC 7816-15.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO/IEC 24727-1, Identification cards — Integrated circuit card programming interfaces — Part 1: Architecture
ISO/IEC 7816-4, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 4: Organization, security and
commands for interchange
ISO/IEC 7816-8, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 8: Commands for security operations
ISO/IEC 7816-9, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 9: Commands for card management
ISO/IEC 7816-15, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 15: Cryptographic information
application
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO/IEC 24727-1 and the following
apply.
3.1
data object
information seen at the interface consisting of the concatenation of a mandatory ISO/IEC 8825 DER-encoded
tag field, a mandatory ISO/IEC 8825 DER-encoded length field and a conditional value field
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3.2
file
structure for application and/or data in the card, as seen at the generic card interface when processing
commands
3.3
translation code
procedural software that transforms commands on the generic card interface to commands implemented on
an integrated circuit card
4 Abbreviated terms
For the purposes of this document, the abbreviated terms given in ISO/IEC 24727-1 and
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