
Smart Cards Lab COMPGA12 University College London
Example 4: You SIM card ATR (with a USB SIM reader, or with a
normal reader such as Omnikey 5321 and a simple adaptor. Type in the
ATR obtained:
Copy here are the explanations given by the program:
8.5 ATR and ATS, RFID/Contacless Cards
With RFID cards, there is no ATR. But there is ATS = Answer To Select.
Many RFID cards still don’t do have an ATS, then the windows PC/SC
interface will simulate/synthetise the answer and return an ATR that con-
tains an ATS (that can also be simulated if not implemented).
8.6 Variable ATS
Example 5: Your Electronic Passport ATR (if different, type in manually):
Encoding: In these examples it is possible to see that ATR is 3B8C8001
+ 11 bytes ATS + checksum byte.
Remark: For older passports ATR is fixed, for more recent ones to pro-
tect people’s privacy they are variable (!). However in order for the passport
to provide a different ATR, one has to switch off and on the magnetic field
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Nicolas T. Courtois 2009-10
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