
The net resultis that erase and write operations can be spread across a wider selection ofEEPROM memory locations. The Internal Authenticate Command CLA INS P1 P2 Lc Data C0 16 88 16 00 16 00 16 03 16 02 16 01 16 03 16 The Internal Authenticate command is a command sent by areader-side application to the security system on the card to allow the card toprove that it possesses a secret key that is shared with the reader-sideapplication. If the Verify command fails (i.e., the password required by the cardis not correctly provided by the reader-side application), then an error statusindicator is returned by the card to the reader-side application.

Successful execution ofthis command indicates that the reader-side application did know the correctpassword and it puts the card into a state such that a subsequent access to afile guarded by this password information will succeed.

The password type information may be attached to a specific file on the cardor to part or all of the file hierarchy on the card.

This command is used to allowthe reader-side application to convince the card that it (the reader-sideapplication) knows a password maintained by the card to restrict access toinformation on the card.
