Giesecke & Devrient GmbH BIOTOKEN User Manual

Command Reference
VERSION INFO

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Reference Manual StarSign® Bio Token 3.0/Edition 07.2005

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2.3

VERSION INFO

Scope

 is used to request public information on StarSign Bio To-

ken 3.0 from the host. 
Parameter P2 of the command APDU specifies the item tag of the version 
information to be retrieved. The response data returns the requested ver-
sion information.

Command

P2

Specifies the item tag of the version information
’01’
StarSign Bio Token 3.0 firmware version, build date and time
’02’
Key info: CRC of currently valid authentication key

L

e

Specifies the expected length: ’00’ <= length <= ’80’
’00’
Returns the maximum available data

Response

Status Bytes

This command may return one of the following status bytes.

CLA

INS

P1

P2

L

e

’A0’

'8A'

’00’

DATA

SW1

SW2

Response 

string

’90’

’00’

Code

Description

'90 00'

Successful operation

'A7 00'

General ARM7 error

'A7 01'

Unknown instruction

'A7 02'

Length error

'A7 81'

Invalid parameter

'A7 8A'

General version info error