AET63 Reference Manual
version 1.8 September 2006
Advanced Card Systems Ltd.
Page 12 of 29
7.2.2
No transmission error with extended response
The response by the AET63 to a correctly received command consists of three protocol bytes, two status
bytes and a variable number of data bytes and has the following structure:
byte
1
2
3
4
5
6
7 ... N+6
(N>0)
N+7
Header
SW1
SW2
Data length = N
Data
Checksum
FF
H
Data Length N
Header
01
H
to indicate the start of the normal response.
02
H
to indicate the start of an encrypted response (support from firmware 0.67 onwards,
only used in PTVerifySC
(*)
and PTVerifySCAll
(*)
)
SW1
Indicates the command execution status:
90
H
= command successfully executed
60
H
= error in command data; command cannot be executed
67
H
= error detected in command execution
FF
H
= status message initiated by the reader
SW2
Further qualification of the command execution status.
A table listing the possible values of the status bytes SW1 and SW2 and the corresponding
meaning is given in Appendix B.
Data Length
Number of subsequent data bytes, and is encoded in 3 bytes. The first byte is FF
H
. The
second byte and the third byte represent data length N.
Data
Data contents of the command.
For a
READ_DATA
command, for example, the data bytes would contain the contents of the
memory addresses read from the card. The data bytes can represent values read from the
card and/or status information.
Checksum
The checksum is computed by XORing all response bytes including header, status bytes,
data length and all data bytes.
Note (*) :
Please refer to “BioTRUSTKey API Manual.doc” for the descriptions of PTVerifySC and
PTVerifySCAll.
7.2.3
Transmission error
If the receiving party of a command (i.e., the AET63) or a response (i.e., the computer) detects an error in
the data length or the checksum of a command, it disregards the received data and sends a "NOT
ACKNOWLEDGE" message to the transmitting party upon completion of the faulty transmission. The "NOT
ACKNOWLEDGE" message consists of two bytes:
byte
1
2
05
H
05
H