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| | An Introduction to Java Card Technology - Part 1 |
 | | The series of international standards ISO/IEC 7816, introduced in 1987 with its latest update in 2003, defines various aspects of a smart card, including physical characteristics, physical contacts, electronic signals and transmission protocols, commands, security architecture, application identifiers, and common data elements. |
 | | The ISO 7816-4 standard specifies the basic instructions to use for access to data on the card when it's structured according to an on-card file system as defined in the standard. |
 | | An AID, as defined in ISO 7816-5, is a sequence of between 5 and 16 bytes. |
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