A card can hold several payment applications; a terminal supports a list of AIDs. Application selection (EMV Book 1, chapter 12) finds the applications both support, orders them, and selects one.
Application selection
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PSE and directory, list of AIDs, partial selection, priority, confirmation and retries.
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The opening of the article
In the full article
- Building the candidate list
- Choosing
- Coming back to selection
- Things the laboratory checks
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