CCID descriptor statistics: bcdCCID

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The bcdCCID field is a number value from the CCID USB descriptor:

Integrated Circuit(s) Cards Interface Devices (CCID) Specification Release Number in Binary-Coded decimal (i.e., 2.10 is 0210h).

bcdCCID	#	%
1.10	123	48.43 %
1.00	121	47.64 %
1.01	5	1.97 %
10.01	3	1.18 %
2.00	2	0.79 %

The only valid realeases of the CCID specifications are 1.0 and 1.1. ICCD has only one released version: 1.00. So the other values are bogus.

Devices with bcdCCID = 1.01 are:

• Broadcom Corp 5880
• Broadcom Corp 5880
• Cherry GmbH SmartBoard XX1X
• Cherry GmbH SmartTerminal ST-1275
• Cherry GmbH SmartTerminal XX1X
• Dell Dell Smart Card Reader Keyboard
• Gemalto IDBridge CT30
• Gemalto IDBridge K30

Theses readers are bogus. 1.1 shall be coded as 1.10 (or 0x0110) as indicated in the specification.

Devices with bcdCCID = 10.01 are:

• Avtor SC Reader 371
• Avtor SecureToken
• COVADIS Auriga

These readers are bogus. The 2 bytes of bcdCCID are reversed and are 0x1001 instead of 0x0110.

Devices with bcdCCID = 2.00 are:

• OCS ID-One Cosmo Card USB Smart Chip Device
• Philips Semiconductors JCOP41V221

These readers are declaring to comply to a CCID specification that is not yet released. Maybe they come from the future?