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Smart card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The major boom in smartcard chipmodules came with the introduction of a smartcard-based GSM chips for mobile phones in Europe in the 1990s. The applications of smartcards include their use as credit or ATM cards, SIMs for mobile phones, authorization cards for pay television, high security identification and access control cards, public transport tickets, etc. Smartcards have been advertised as suitable for these tasks, because they are engineered to be tamper resistant. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smartcard   (1147 words)

:: Ecebs - Smartcards :: The major components of a typical Smartcard are the CPU (the 'brain' of the chip), the memory (for data storage) and the interface pads (providing access to and control of the chip). Smartcards have also been an integral part of the GSM mobile telephone for several years, where they are used as Subscriber Identity Modules or SIM Cards. Smartcard technology allows effective card holder profiling giving the ability to furnish consumers with new products and features which best suit their lifestyle, while providing the business and/or card issuer with valuable information on customer habits. www.ecebs.com /smartcards.asp   (1275 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Dozens of smartcard trials are being carried out across the globe and industry pundits forecast billions will be in circulation at the beginning of the next millennium, but it's the Dutch who lead the field. Smartcards can be loaded at "cash dispensers," but by the end of 1996 topping up will also be possible at home via smartphones or cheap "home-loaders" connected to an ordinary telephone. Although the first smartcard was developed as early as in 1977 by Motorola and Bull for a bank in France, the home of the smartcard, they are only now catching on, but without one standard leading the industry. ganges.cs.tcd.ie /mepeirce/Project/Press/dutch.html   (711 words)

An Introduction to Smart Cards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Because smartcards are indeed tiny computers, it’s difficult to predict the variety of applications that will be possible with them in the future. Smartcards have proven to be quite useful as a transaction/authorization/identification medium in European countries. We won't try to predict the future of smartcard application possibilities, nor their impact on society, but instead we focus on the state of the art for smartcards and their use in computer and network security systems. www.sspsolutions.com /solutions/whitepapers/introduction_to_smartcards   (292 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Smartcards have been in use for the past two decades in many roles and it is useful to take a fresh view of the current market requirements. The alternative authentication method is based on public key technology where the smartcard has one, private key within the card and another, related but different value, public key which is available outside the card. As smartcards will often contain the secrets for authentication it is important to keep the card functions as simple as possible so that the authentication keys cannot be revealed by some back-door approach through the additional functions. www.keycorp.net /Products/Smartcards/Whitepapers/Whitepaper_2.htm   (803 words)

Smartcards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) We had several machines that to interface with: two smartcard "personalisers" and a magnetic swipe for writing the stripe on the back of the card. Since the smartcard interface was considerably different to the mag stripe devices I decided to work around much of the existing device support and made sure that it was easy to add support for new devices when required. Adding support for new kinds of smartcard was easy since most of the code was in the ISO 7816 standard library and card specific changes could be written to extend this. dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/road/xmx04/Len/smartcards.htm   (1993 words)

Smartcards an Overview Smartcards have finally entered the public domain and our used in a variety of applications, sometimes without the use of being aware that they are actually using a smartcard. Smartcards may be categorised into two primary types, memory cards or microprocessor cards. There is of course an ISO standard for smartcards (7816 parts 1-10) other different industry sectors have tended to create their own proprietary versions based around the ISO generic standard. www.avanti.1to1.org /smartcards.html   (1294 words)

Technologies - Smartcards in IT Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) The smartcard offers the opportunity of saving such profiles (or the keys necessary for Kerberos) on the card securely and thus equipping the user with his rights which cannot be copied or inherited. Smartcards as secure storage media for secret keys and certificates are also being used increasingly with GSS-based methods for reciprocal partner authentication and for agreeing a session key for encrypting mass data. Smartcards are complicated to handle, must be issued, are easy to lose, etc. And users shrink from costs for additional hardware (cards/reading devices). www.tpex.com /smartcrds.htm   (1743 words)

Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: Features :: Smartcards Dumbfounded   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Smartcards have always been a technology answer desperately seeking a question. Smartcard chips have evolved from proprietary half-wits that could barely store or process a few kilobytes of data into masterminds that can run several tiny Java, Windows, or other software programs. These uses had better be terrific moneymakers, however, because a long track record of flops by yesterday’s smartcards have left a jaded audience for today’s smarter cards to convince. www.business2.com /b2/web/articles/0,17863,528117,00.html   (427 words)

CertiGuide to Security+ - 3.2.4.6  Smartcards Smartcards are often used as part of an authentication process. Because it is possible for the smartcard to be lost or stolen, it is important that the authentication process depend on “something you know” (like a PIN) or “something you are” (like biometric data) as well as the smartcard (“something you have”), when access to sensitive data and resources is involved. Security concerns with smartcards involve compatibility issues, vulnerability to theft, and the fact that sometimes a secondary method of identification should be used along with the smartcard to protect sensitive resources from access by unauthorized people. certiguide.com /secplus/cg_sp_3246Smartcards-3.htm   (383 words)

Framework for Smart Card Use in Government - FIPR Response The recognition that smartcard security is not infallible, and the attention paid to management issues in section 2.2, are a most welcome first step towards sanity, and deserve greater emphasis. Smartcards have carved out some interesting and valuable niches, most notably in the subscriber identity module (SIM) cards used to personalise GSM digital mobile phones, and in the subscriber cards similarly used to control subscription to pay-per-view TV set-top boxes. For example, trials of healthcare smartcards in both Germany and Canada showed a consistent tendency for medical records to be centralised from the GP's surgery (or equivalent) to the local health authority or insurer. www.fipr.org /cards/fipr_cards.html   (3255 words)

TuxMobil: Linux Support for SmartCards/Flash Cards consists of a SmartCard library that uses PC/SC Lite as its backend and applications that use the library. The smartcard which is used to store the ssh identity is a memory card (I2C 16KBIT/2048 bytes). It uses the smartcard program to interact with the chipdrive and it is a kind of derivative of ssh-smart. tuxmobil.org /smart_linux.html   (1313 words)

Wired 4.10: The Future of Money This technology is on the verge of exploding, and when it does, people will think of smartcards as money in the same way they now think of traveler's checks as money. In France, they introduced smartcards by fiat: they just announced one day that you had to use smartcards for all automatic teller machines. Smartcards are very big in Germany, and in 1995, 400 million smartcards were shipped to Asia. www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.10/wriston.html?topic=future_of_money&topic_set=neweconomy   (773 words)

MAKInterface - Smartcard We are using HighQuality ISO7816 contacting units with landing contacts that are not damaging the smartcard, the lifetime of the unit is 200.000 insertation cycles. Season1 Smartcard Emulator - for emulation of asynchrone smartcards using the PC Season2 Smartcard Emulator - for emulation of asynchrone smartcards using the PC Universal PCB. The procedure for programming of Goldwafer and Goldwafer-compatible smartcards is described in the Support menu under "Procedure for programming of Goldwafer and Goldwafer-compatible smartcards". www.makinterface.de /smartcre.php3   (2332 words)

Wired News: Smartcards Get Room to Play EEPROM is used on smartcards because, while a static memory can retain its contents without power, an electric charge will erase the memory for reuse. Smartcards' silicon memories are loaded with data meant to power an electronic exchange. Via a smartcard reader, data can be loaded on or unloaded from smartcards. www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,13423,00.html   (511 words)

Smartcards: The Intelligent Way To Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Because the embedded private key is the digital representation of a user's identity, the smartcard is key to digitally signed and encrypted messages, provides access to protected intranet sites and is a possible enabler to a single network sign on. They are deceptively complex: Smartcards look like standard credit cards with a small square grid of metal contacts on one side, but they contain a fully working computer inside. Smartcards are becoming common in several markets, such as electronic banking and GSM mobile telephones, and they're now making a move toward becoming a network security commodity. www.networkcomputing.com /909/909ws1.html   (814 words)

buying smartcards Find more information on dish network smart card, injected smart cards, smartcards for dreambox, rfid smart cards, dishnetwork smart cards, smart card connector, smartcard keyboards, smartcard credit cards, dish network smart card programmer, smart card reader, smart card technology and more. Smartcards are inherently more secure than conventional magnetic stripe cards... If that is true, smartcards hold the key to unlocking the checkless,... www.smartcards.info-1.org /smartcards/1/buying-smartcards.html   (370 words)

BYTE.com Today smartcards are common in Europe, with over 100 million pay-phone cards in France, 80 million health-insurance cards in Germany, and "electronic purse" cards in more than 20 countries (see the sidebar "Smartcards in Action"). While the cost of deploying smartcards (now about $7 just for the card) continues to decline as technology matures, it is still a resistance factor. Security is part of every smartcard application, whether it's a cyber-purse, a bus pass, or a network access control system. www.byte.com /art/9804/sec19/art1.htm   (1582 words)

Forbes.com: Smartcards Get Smarter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) And note that one smartcard, which is a plastic card with an embedded chip, can replace numerous other cards because it can hold more data than those designed with magnetic stripes. Smartcards are used to log on to computers and store data too. While the smartcard is still uncommon in the U.S., with the American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people) Blue card the only notable exception, we can expect smartcard technology to become an eventual standard. www.forbes.com /2001/06/01/0601dvorak.html   (738 words)

Tamper Resistance - a Cautionary Note We conclude that trusting tamper resistance is problematic; smartcards are broken routinely, and even a device that was described by a government signals agency as `the most secure processor generally available' turns out to be vulnerable. The typical smartcard consists of an 8-bit microprocessor with ROM, EEPROM and RAM, together with serial input and output, all in a single chip that is mounted on a plastic carrier. They generally have little to prevent direct access to the silicon; the marketing director of a smartcard vendor claimed that there was simply no demand from their users for anything really sophisticated [Mae94]. www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/rja14/tamper.html   (7594 words)

WeetHet - SmartCards - Some available types There are basically two types of smartcards: the ones with only an EEPROM (memory) and the ones with a CPU (PIC or AVR) and EEPROM (little CPU and memory). If it cannot be found on the smartcard, the picture on your TV remains fl or shows a message "Please Insert SmartCard". SmartCards are pretty sturdy but the contacts can get durty (use a pencile eraser to clean the contacts). www.weethet.nl /english/smartcards_types.php   (2694 words)

ePanorama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) In contact smartcard systems, such as reading the data from a serial EEPROM over a two-wire (I2 C) or three-wire SPI or Microwire bus, the power, clock, and data lines are connected separately. In contactless smartcards all this communication and usually also the power for the smartcard needs to be transferred wirelessly using RF signals and/or inductive coupling methods. Card with magnetic stripes are not smartcard techniques, but because they are quite often used in same applications where smartcards are also used to coming to use, they are also worth to mention on the same page with smartcard technologies. www.epanorama.net /links/smartcards.html   (3279 words)

dss smartcards These ISO-7816 smartcard programmers can be used for a variety of applications... When DSS smartcards are first reset, they check a pair of bytes in their EEPROM to verify that the card is OK for use. These ISO-7816 smartcard programmers can be used for a variety of applications such as... www.smartcards.info-1.org /smartcards/4/dss-smartcards.html   (340 words)

SmartCards It describes MI theory in a nutshell, describes the eight intelligences (including the naturalist intelligence) in plain, easy-to-understand language, and provides a long list of activities for you to do with your students to develop each of the eight intelligences. This SmartCard provides the rationale for teambuilding, and a step-by-step description of 14 fun and practical teambuilding strategies for your class, including: 4S Brainstorming, Find-the-Fib, Match Mine, Pairs Compare, Team Interview, and Team Project. Actively engage pairs with strategies such as: "Unpack, ""Spin Off," and "Read/Dig." And, of course, a Think-Pair-Share SmartCard wouldn't be complete without a variety of techniques for students to share their learning or responses. www.kaganonline.com /Catalog/SmartCards1.html   (1522 words)

Omniseek: /Computing /Systems /Computers: Hardware: Systems /Smartcards / SmartCards are preparing to revolutionize Electronic Commerce, from purchasing to access controls to arranging travel. A new smartcard technology is helping the Mexican government keep tabs on the billion-dollar flow of commerce across its northern border. A new terminal that marries encryption and smartcards with biometric technologies may be the answer for home-banking networks. www.omniseek.com /srch/{23548}   (550 words)

Using Smartcards in Windows Server 2003/XP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) A smartcard is a device the size of a credit card, with a security chip that can be used for logon authentication, remote access, entry-control systems, and more (see Figure 1). For example, a thumbprint scanner, smartcard, and PIN might be required to access a system. Several computer and motherboard manufacturers are even building smartcard readers into their products; you might investigate this option when buying new equipment. www.awprofessional.com /articles/article.asp?p=101600   (510 words)

E P S Y S - Smartcards & Systems The GemPC Twin is a low cost USB and RS232 universal smartcard reader, associates all characteristics necessary in a desktop environment and all the features of a transparent smartcard reader/writer. The GemPC USB low cost universal smartcard reader, associates all characteristics necessary in a desktop environment and all the features of a transparent smartcard reader/writer. This ergonomic smartcard reader is suitable as a POS reader, as a payment terminal, as a debit/credit terminal for customer loyalty points, as an ID terminal or as a reloading terminal for gaming applications. www.epsys.no /sreaders.htm   (1511 words)

Search: Smartcards - Info.co.uk smartcards all this communication and usually also the power for the... A smart card is a card that is embedded with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip with non-programmable logic. smartcards will one day be as important as computers are today. dpxml.infospace.com /infocom.uk/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Smartcards&CMP=KNC-3LS480536328&infoad=1   (301 words)

Electronics Today - Smart Card'05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) SmartCards Expo 2005 will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India, from September13 - 15,2005, and will be co-located with e-Security 2005 /RFidIndia Expo2005. It has played a significant role in creating awareness about the smart card technology and its applications in the country. Thanks to the pioneering role of SmartCards Expo, Smartcards are proliferating into newer application areas in India, which include ID and Access Control, Driving Licence and Vehicle Registration, retail, loyalty, Banking and finance, close user group applications, Healthcare, Transit and fare collection, toll collections and many others. www.electronicstoday.org /SMARTCARD05.htm   (202 words)

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