Core Service

Introduction

The Trust1Connector core services address communication functionality with local devices. The Trust1Connector core exposes 2 main interfaces:

  • interface for web/native applications using JavaScrip/Typescript

  • REST API as a new approach and to incorporate the Trust1Connector as a microservice in the application architecture

In this guide, we target only the use of Trust1Connector's core interface for web/native applications. The T1C-SDK-JS exposes protected resources for administration and consumer usage.

The JavaScript library must be initialized with a correct token in order to access the all resource. The security policy for Trust1Connector v3 secured ALL endpoints.

Administration resources

Protected resources are administration resources. The JavaScript library must be initialized with a correct token in order to access the resource.

  • Download Trust1Connector installer

  • Get Information of the device and user context

  • Register T1C for device

  • Update T1C on device (install new version)

  • Update DS (distribution server) metadata

  • Increment use case counter

Executing these functionality is explained further.

Consumer resources

Consumer resources are typically used from an application perspective:

  • Get pub-key certificate

  • Get version

  • Get Information (operating system, runtime, user context, variable configuration)

  • List card-readers

  • List modules

  • Get module

  • Get card-reader

  • Get card-reader with cards inserted

  • Get card-readers without card

  • Get consent (needed for shared environments)

  • Detect card for card-reader (polling utility resource)

  • Detect any card (polling utility resource)

  • Detect card-readers (polling utility resource)

  • Browser Information (utility resource)

Executing these functionality is explained further.

Core Functionalities

The Trust1Connector functionalities are about secured communication with device hardware. The document highlights communication with smart card readers - contact and contact-less. Other hardware devices can be enabled or integrated as well in the solution. Some of the already are, for example printer drivers, signature tablet drivers, ...

Initialize the client library

The client can be initialized by passing a T1CConfig object in the constructor

config = new T1CSdk.T1CConfig(configoptions);
T1CSdk.T1CClient.initialize(config).then(res => {
    client = res;
    console.log("Client config: ", client.localConfig)
    core = client.core();

}, err => {
    if (err.code == 500) {
        console.log(err)
        client = err.client
        $('#consentModal').modal('show', {
            keyboard: false
        });
        $('.consent-token').text(makeid(20));
    } else if (err.code == 115) {
        $('.consent-token').text(makeid(20));
    } else if (err.code == 199) {
        document.querySelector("#initAlert").classList.remove("d-none")
        document.querySelector("#initAlert").innerHTML = err.description;
    } else {
        console.error("T1C error:", err)
    }
});

List card readers

Returns a list of available card readers. Multiple readers can be connected. Each reader is identified by a unique reader_id.

T1CClient.initialize(config).then(res => {
    var coreService = res.core();
    core.readers(callback);
})

The response will contains a list of card readers:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "57a3e2e71c48cee9",
      "name": "Bit4id miniLector",
      "pinpad": false,
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B9813400AA503010101AD1311",
        "description": [
          "Belgium Electronic ID card (eID)"
        ],
        "module": "beid"
      }
    }
  ]
}

When multiple readers are attached to a device, the response will show all connected card readers:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ec3109c84ee9eeb5",
      "name": "Identiv uTrust 4701 F Dual Interface Reader(2)",
      "pinpad": false
    },
    {
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B9813400AA503010101AD1311",
        "description": [
          "Belgium Electronic ID card"
        ]
      },
      "id": "57a3e2e71c48cee9",
      "name": "Bit4id miniLector",
      "pinpad": false
    },
    {
      "id": "c8d31f8fed44d952",
      "name": "Identiv uTrust 4701 F Dual Interface Reader(1)",
      "pinpad": false
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

Important to notice:

  • The response adds a card-element when a card is inserted into the card reader.

  • The response contains card-reader pin-pad capabilities

Card Inserted

As mentioned in the List card-readers, when a smart-card is inserted/detected, the reader will contain the cart-type based on the ATR. The ATR (Anwser To Reset), is the response from any smart-card when powered, and defines the card type. The Trust1Connector recognized more than 3k smart-card types.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B9813400AA503010101AD1311",
        "description": [
          "Belgium Electronic ID card"
        ]
      },
      "id": "57a3e2e71c48cee9",
      "name": "Bit4id miniLector",
      "pinpad": false
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

Pin-Pad Capabilities

As mentioned in the List card-readers, when a card-reader has pin-pad capabilities, this will be mentioned in the response (notice the pinpadproperty):

{
  "data": [
    {
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B9813400AA503010101AD1311",
        "description": [
          "Belgium Electronic ID card"
        ]
      },
      "id": "57a3e2e71c48cee9",
      "name": "Bit4id miniLector",
      "pinpad": false
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

List Card-Readers - Explained Example

The following example is the response for List card-readers on a device with 4 different card-readers attached:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "ec3109c84ee9eeb5",
      "name": "Identiv uTrust 4701 F Dual Interface Reader(2)",
      "pinpad": false
    },
    {
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B67000000000000009000",
        "description": [
          "MisterCash & Proton card",
          "VISA Card (emitted by Bank Card Company - Belgium)"
        ]
      },
      "id": "e5863fcc71478871",
      "name": "Gemalto Ezio Shield Secure Channel",
      "pinpad": true
    },
    {
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B9813400AA503010101AD1311",
        "description": [
          "Belgium Electronic ID card"
        ]
      },
      "id": "57a3e2e71c48cee9",
      "name": "Bit4id miniLector",
      "pinpad": false
    },
    {
      "id": "c8d31f8fed44d952",
      "name": "Identiv uTrust 4701 F Dual Interface Reader(1)",
      "pinpad": false
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

In the above example you notice that 4 card-readers are connected. Each card-reader receives his temporary id which can be used for other functions where a card-reader id is needed. This method can be requested in order to list all available card-readers, and optional cards-inserted. Each card-reader has a vendor provided name, which is retrieved from the card-reader itself. An additional property pinpad, a boolean value, denotes if the card-reader has pin-pad capabilities. A pin-pad is a card-reader, most of the times with its own display and key-pad. From a security perspective, it's considered best practice to use as much as possible pin-pad capabilities of a pin-pad card-reader. When a reader has a smart-card inserted (contact interface) or detected (contactless interface), the card type will be resolved by the GCL in order to respond with a meaningful type. In the above examples you see that; one card-reader has a Belgian eID card; another card-reader has a MisterCash or VISA Card available for interaction.

The readers returned, are the card-readers with a card available. The card-readers where no card is presented, are ignored.

Get card reader with card inserted

Returns a list of available card readers with a smart card inserted. Multiple readers can be connected with multiple smart cards inserted. Each reader is identified by a unique reader_id and contains information about a connected smart card. A smart card is of a certain type. The Trust1Connector detects the type of the smart card and returns this information in the JSON response.

GCLClient.initialize(config, function(err, client) {
    var coreService = client.core();
    core.readersCardAvailable(callback);
});

Response:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "card": {
        "atr": "3B9813400AA503010101AD1311",
        "description": []
      },
      "id": "57a3e2e71c48cee9",
      "name": "Bit4id miniLector",
      "pinpad": false
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}

Download T1C Installer

The T1C JS SDK no longer has a method to download the T1C installer.

Instead, the T1C installer can be downloaded by navigating the client browser to the /v3/downloads/installer endpoint of the Distribution Service (e.g. https://acc-ds.t1t.io/v3/downloads/installer). The Distribution Service will analyze the User-Agent header and automatically initiate the download of an OS-appropriate installer of the latest configured version. The user agent string parsing is considered "best-effort"; as they can vary wildly depending OS and browser software.

Alternatively, you can also initiate the download of a T1C installer with the following endpoints:

  1. /v3/downloads/installers/{{OS}}: This endpoint allows you to specify the OS for which you wish to obtain an installer. The possible values are win32, win64, unix, macos.

  2. /v3/downloads/installers/{{OS}}/versions/{{version}}: This endpoint allows you to download a specific version of a T1C installer for a specific OS.

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