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 Smart card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The embedded chip of a smart card usually implements some cryptographic algorithm.
There are dual-interface cards that implement contactless and contact interfaces on a single card with some shared storage and processing.
Roland Moreno actually patented the concept of the memory card in 1974.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card   (2052 words)

  
 Smart Card Overview
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.
Thus, they are dependent on the card reader (also known as the card-accepting device) for their processing and are suitable for uses where the card performs a fixed operation.
The current generation of chip cards has an eight-bit processor, 16KB read-only memory, and 512 bytes of random-access memory.
http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/smartcards.html   (575 words)

  
 Smart Card Basics
A smart card, a type of chip card is a plastic card embedded with a computer chip that stores and transacts data between users.
The card data is transacted via a reader that is part of a computing system.
Smart cards solve both challenges with secure storage and distribution of everything from emergency data to benefits status.
http://www.smartcardbasics.com/overview.html   (852 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "What is a "smart card"?"
Smart cards can be used with a smart-card reader attachment to a personal computer to authenticate a user.
If the host computer read and wrote the smart card's random access memory (RAM), it would be no different than a diskette.
The host computer and card reader actually "talk" to the microprocessor.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question332.htm   (410 words)

  
 Smart Card HOWTO
Smart cards hold these data within different files, and, as you will read, these data is only visible to its program depending on the operating system of the card.
Microprocessor cards, are more like the computers we use on our desktops.
SCAS is a simple program that checks the code inside the card with the code inside the computer.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Smart-Card-HOWTO.html   (3455 words)

  
 Smart Card Security
Today, smart cards are being used in different areas becuase they can be used together with other technologies, such as asymmetric cryptographic algorithms and biometrics identification, to provide highly assured and trusted applications.
In smart card terminology, the root or master file (MF), besides the header part which consists of itself, the body part contains the headers of all of the dedicated files and elementary files which contain the MF in their parental hierarchy.
It is suggested that the card operating system may have to co-operate with some kind of authentication algorithms to protect all the files or even the whole system.
http://www.txwes.edu/~jvortega/security/smartcard_security.html   (5274 words)

  
 Smart Toolz™ - Smart Card Application Development Environment
Smart Toolz™ is a comprehensive suite of software and hardware that includes everything you need to develop PC-based smart card applications.
Smart Toolz™ comes with the versatile and easy to use CardAppz™ application/demo software for the rapid creation of a card database design exactly suited to your business, with dozens of customizable features for added functionality and security.
The SDK enables advanced card development for both the computer literate non-programmer and the professional programmer.
http://www.smarttoolz.com   (169 words)

  
 Smart Card FAQ
One of the fundamental problems in securing computer systems is the need for tamper-resistant storage of keys.
An industry-wide trnd toward interoperability is now emerging, enabling the developement of cards and applications that will work together in open environments.
This card-computer can be programmed to perform tasks and store information.
http://smartcard.nist.gov/faq.html   (890 words)

  
 Internet Smart Card
More often than not, a user can only work with a smart card once he or she has hooked up a number of hardware devices to the computer as well as installed the software that goes along with them.
Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, the smart card supports existing software components and communicates with the computer through a USB interface.
With the aid of widespread Internet standards, the high-security features of smart card technology can now be integrated into the world of information technology.
http://www.gi-de.com/portal/page?_pageid=42,54860&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL   (601 words)

  
 CNN - Smart ID card gains support - June 24, 1999
Employees will use the card to enter buildings and log on to their computers, among other applications.
It is adding new printers and making changes in the software to produce the new cards, said Anthony Cieri, program manager of the Navy's Smart Card Program Office.
"I think it's a great idea to have a chip on the card because there will be so much you can do with it," said Bill Holcombe, the director of card technology at GSA and the leader of the GSA project.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/24/smartid.idg   (588 words)

  
 Didya.com Smart Card and Smart Card Reader Frequently Asked Questions
It also states that it locks up your computer when the card is removed.
I would like to read the data in binary, hex or any format and write to the card using the same format.
Which smart card would work the best for logging in to Windows XP/2003?
http://www.didya.com/faqs.asp   (604 words)

  
 Smart Card Alliance Newsletter
The Task Force is now developing the outline for a white paper that presents the benefits of a combined smart card and biometric secure ID system.
Solutions include best-practice implementation methodology, optimization tools, pre-integrated hardware and software, smart cards and card issuing services.
The program offers both fixed denomination and open-ended cards.
http://www.smartcardalliance.org/newsletter/March_2002.cfm   (1636 words)

  
 Define smart card - a definition from Whatis.com
The hardware for making the cards and the devices that can read them is currently made principally by Bull, Gemplus, and Schlumberger.
An industry standard interface between programming and PC hardware in a smart card has been defined by the PC/SC Working Group, representing Microsoft, IBM, Bull, Schlumberger, and other interested companies.
Go to Whatis.com for more computer terms and definitions
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213004,00.html   (419 words)

  
 Health Smart Card Proposal Retirement Facility
By inserting the card into a card reader which connects to a computer via a serial port, the data is displayed on the computer screen in any participating ambulance, emergency department, Doctor's office, pharmacy, outpatient surgical facility, or retirement home, etc. The computer screen display is easily printed to paper.
The card is easily updated whenever any changes occur.
It might be read in a participating ambulance, emergency department, or doctor's office.
http://www.healthsmartcard.net/pro-retirement.html   (424 words)

  
 Wired News: 'Smart' ID Card Worries Hong Kong
This time, they're getting so-called "smart" cards, with embedded computer chips that hold names, pictures and birthdates as well as a digital template of both thumbprints.
The expense includes computer database, networks, card readers, technical support and additional staff.
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50961,00.html   (876 words)

  
 A Smart Card Software and Integration Company - SMART DYNAMICS, LLC
Smart Dynamics provides expert smart card software and hardware integration consulting services.
Working with smart cards is now as easy as managing the files on your hard drive!
A Smart Card Software and Integration Company - SMART DYNAMICS, LLC
http://www.smartdynamics.com   (84 words)

  
 Smart Card Reader and the Myth of Free Satellite Television
The smart card is typically used instead of a memory card in a device where the memory needs to be protected.
A "Smart Card" is a computer chip contained on a circuit board.
It is only where the smart card technology is used improperly, such as the use of a smart card which has been reprogrammed to allow the user to watch unlimited television programming without payment, that the use is illegal.
http://www.expertlaw.com/library/misc/smart_card_reader.html   (699 words)

  
 Visa International and Axalto Expand Visa Smart Breakthrough Card Program
Visa is a leader in Internet based payments and is pioneering the creation of u-commerce, or universal commerce--the ability to conduct commerce anywhere, anytime, and any way.
The introduction of EMV chip cards is central to our vision of universal commerce, where goods and services can be bought and sold anywhere, at any time, in any way."
Visa has unsurpassed acceptance in more than 150 countries.
http://www.corporate.visa.com/md/nr/press240.jsp   (695 words)

  
 The Smart Card Simulator Homepage
Just install the software on your PC and start working with smart cards.
file tree for the smart card, with the ability to see the file content, track the actually selected file and record, see and change the access conditions
TSCS as a GPL software - The future of The Smart Card Simulator
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/4710/tscs.html   (566 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Smart Card Handbook, 2nd Edition: Books: W. Rankl,W. Rankl,W. Effing,Kenneth Cox
Readers will also find smart card simulation software and relevant Web addresses on the book's ftp site.
Extremely broad and deep review of smart card technology.
I thought this was a big emerging trend and all networking devices we sell to the goverment has to support them while there is a huge puzzle of different types of cards to support.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471988758?v=glance   (971 words)

  
 An Introduction to Java Card Technology - Part 3, The Smart Card Host Application
Many of these vendors support the OpenCard Framework (OCF), a Java-based set of APIs that hide some of the details of interacting with card readers from different vendors.
An AID is a string of five to 16 hexadecimal byte values separated by periods; for example, "
An applet proxy that implements the actual low-level channel management and APDU I/O. The Proxy design pattern allows you to expose an object-oriented interface, while hiding the APDU details from the application.
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/javacard/articles/javacard3   (2979 words)

  
 Metro - SmarTrip. More Than a Smart Card. It?s Pure Genius.
It?s plastic?like a credit card?and is embedded with a special computer chip that keeps track of the value of the card.
A maximum value of $300 can be added onto a SmarTrip card.
Your employer can load the value of your Metrochek benefit onto your SmarTrip card using SmartBenefits.
http://www.wmata.com/riding/smartrip.cfm   (610 words)

  
 smart card - Columbia Encyclopedia article about smart card
When combined with other integrated circuits that provide storage for data and programs, often on a single semiconductor base to form a chip, the microprocessor becomes the heart of a small computer, or microcomputer.
Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip.
smart card, small device that resembles a credit card but contains an embedded microprocessor microprocessor, integrated circuit containing the arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry required to interpret and execute instructions from a computer program.
http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/smart+card   (441 words)

  
 Hong Kong Smart Card System
The electronic ticket of the future, the Octopus card is the most convenient way for frequent MTR users to travel.
central computer systems for card tracking, card management and complete business management packages.
Go to any Add Value Machine in an MTR station:
http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/External/lac/lac.nsf/Sectors/Transport/D5A576A039A802C0852568B2007988AD?OpenDocument   (1421 words)

  
 smart card definition of smart card in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
The card was inserted into Smarty, whose circuits emulated the magnetic field of a rotating floppy disk and transferred the data to the floppy's read/write head.
Fischer International's Smarty allowed a PC's floppy drive to read smart cards.
smart card definition of smart card in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/smart+card   (259 words)

  
 Aveso: Smart Card Displays
Smart cards also represent a convenient way to carry data between systems or to sites without systems.
The solution, enabled by Aveso’s printed electronic displays, will help card issuers address the burgeoning costs of credit card fraud and identity theft, while providing peace of mind to the consumer.
Display-enabled stored value cards of the future will allow card issuers to deliver a new level of convenience to their customers.
http://www.avesodisplays.com/sol/smart_cards.html   (441 words)

  
 Smart Card, Smart Card Business Case, Smart Card System, Smart Card Solution, Smart Card Hardware
In an age with increasing security threats and data-transmission privacy requirements, smart card hardware, software, systems and solutions are fast emerging as the preferred technologies and applications around the world.
Your Fargo SecureMark® Integrator can help you create or upgrade a smart card program that is fully compatible with your existing technology.
You’ll get the highest-quality, full-color printing across the entire card surface, without damaging the embedded electronics or your printhead.
http://www.fargo.com/applications/smart_cards.asp   (341 words)

  
 Java Card Technology
The Java Card Development Kit includes a complete, standalone development environment in which applets written for the Java Card platform can be developed and tested.
Applications written in the Java programming language can be executed securely on cards from different vendors.
Java Card technology provides a secure environment for applications that run on smart cards and other devices with very limited memory and processing capabilities.
http://java.sun.com/products/javacard   (331 words)

  
 Smart Card Solutions Limited - Putting the art into smart
Smart Card Solutions (SCS) is an acknowledged expert in the field of smart card software and applications.
SmartCitizen - wins contract to manage source code for the National Smart Card Project and support early adopters.
As a provider of industry leading software solutions for all types of smart cards, SCS can offer an exceptional range of custom and semi-custom, secure, convenient and flexible solutions to help its clients provide the highly reliable, feature rich and cost effective products that their customers demand.
http://www.sc-solutions.co.uk   (269 words)

  
 Smart Card Management System Solution - Multi-Application Smart Card Technology (MASCOT) / Card Life Cycle Management / ...
Smart Card Management System Solution - Multi-Application Smart Card Technology (MASCOT) / Card Life Cycle Management / SCMS / MASCOT / Payment Solutions / CardBASE Technologies
http://www.cardbase.com   (26 words)

  
 Didya.Com - Smart Card Solutions. Smart Card Reader (s) and more.
If smart card security is your concern, check out our new Cryptographic Smart Card Software Development Kit and for memory smart card development, we have the Memory Smart Card Software Development Kit.
Didya.com brings you the very best in Smart Card solutions and the latest in programmable logic chip interfaces.
If you are interested, email Beta Tester with your Operating System, Computer Information, Smart Card reader type, and beta testing experience.
http://www.didya.com   (273 words)

  
 Changing Rules, Standards Slow NASA Smart Card Effort
NASA was an early adopter of PKI in the second half of the 1990s, and later, during acting CIO Paul Strassmann's tenure, made bold commitments to implement smart cards for both building and computer access.
PKI, as the technology is known for short, is the cryptographic system that has become mainstream for tasks like protecting credit card transactions on the Web.
Ideally, smart cards could help provide more certain identification of computer users than a user name and password alone.
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1868174,00.asp   (1058 words)

  
 AKT Akıllı Kart Teknolojileri - Smart Card Technologies, Security , PKI, Loyalty, Smart Logon
In addition to its in-house software development and support capabilities, AKT collaborates with the leading international companies in smart card industry in offering the cutting edge information technology to its customers in Turkey and several other countries including UK, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
AKT’s products and services particularly include customized smart card software development and integration, logical
AKT Akıllı Kart Teknolojileri - Smart Card Technologies, Security, PKI, Loyalty, Smart Logon
http://www.aktlondon.com   (170 words)

  
 Atmel Corporation
AT83C21GC is based on an Atmel C51 MCU and includes GemCore® Serial Lite Pro software.
Aditional information can be retrieved on Gemplus web site.
C51 Microcontroller with Serial Interface and Smart Card Reader Interfaces ISO7816 compliant, DC/DC Converter and 16K bytes Code RAM.
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/devices.asp?family_id=650   (514 words)

  
 Visa USA Personal smart Visa Card
The smart Visa card has a built-in advantage—a computer chip that stores more than 100 times the information contained on a “regular” Visa card.
As merchants increasingly adopt chip and authentication technology, the smart Visa card brings you added levels of security.
Notify your financial institution immediately of any fraudulent use.
http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/credit/smart_visa.html   (260 words)

  
 Smart Card Group
The Rosco software applet creates a platform allowing the secure management of the file structure on a Java based Smart Card.
Biometric authentication is a means of measuring and analysing human physical characteristic for authentication purposes.
Using this applet you can read and create directories and files for your specific individual requirements and needs.
http://www.smartcardgroup.com   (131 words)

  
 Smart card - nomorebetter.com Info About Smart card
Offers smart card and employee identification solutions to meet the needs of todays secure office environments.
High-level smart card functions such as cryptography and multiple reader management are all handled though various middleware solutions.
Supporting ISO7816 and EMV cards, 2-bus, 3-bus, and I2C memory cards
http://nomorebetter.com/nobt/smart-card.html   (282 words)

  
 Smart Card Developments Ltd. smart card system development
Smart Card Developments Ltd. smart card system development
Our integration services have been providing "enabling technology" for developers to rapidly incorporate smart card hardware and software into new and legacy systems.
has over 12 years of smart card system and software expertise.
http://www.smartdev.demon.co.uk   (129 words)

  
 JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS EVERYWHERE, SURPASSES 1.5 BILLION DEVICES WORLDWIDE
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Java Card, The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
The smart card helps ensure advanced levels of identity assurance and enables consolidation of all employee and contractor access cards into a single card for entry to NASA centers, facilities or computer systems.
In the traditional computing market, the growth of alternative desktops and the user requirements for Java technology have led to many new desktop licensing agreements, while the expansion of Java Web services is driving the adoption of the Java platform from server infrastructure to the edge of the network.
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-02/sunflash.20040219.1.xml   (1145 words)

  
 JAVA CARD FORUM
It is therefore clear that the combined industry work has created an environment of development and managed specification which has enabled Java Cards to be deployed in greater numbers than any other technology
The early founders and exponents of the Java Card™ technology predicted this trend back in 1997.
Globally multiple application smart cards have now become the dominant issued smart card technology.
http://www.javacardforum.org   (337 words)

  
 What is smart card? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
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A small electronic device about the size of a credit card that contains electronic memory, and possibly an embedded integrated circuit (IC).
To use a smart card, either to pull information from it or add data to it, you need a smart card reader, a small device into which you insert the smart card.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/smart_card.html   (333 words)

  
 The Voice of the Smart Card Industry
The Middle-East and Africa Exhibition and Conference will show the latest technologies in the fields of Smart Card Technology, ID Solutions and Networks.
After 17 years in the smart card industry, Jacques Seneca will point out the benefits of the technology to decision makers and the general public.
Jacques Seneca’s first action as chairman of Eurosmart was to broaden the current steering committee to make sure all segments of the industry are properly represented: smart cards, semiconductors, terminals and equipment manufacturers as well as system integrators will bring their contribution to the strategic and administrative management of the Association.
http://www.eurosmart.com   (594 words)

  
 ID TECH - Magnetic Stripe, Smart Card, and Bar Code Products
But because it's just about an inch deep, it fits in the smallest possible space.
The VersaKey features an enhanced MS Windows layout keyboard with a full featured MagStripe card reader.The keyboard layout provides separated function keys, control keys, curser keys, and a full numerical input keypad.There are also many country specific key layouts available.
The MiniSmart Partial Insert Reader is designed to read and write to Integrated Circuit Cards (ICC or "smart" cards), memory or microprocessor, conforming to ISO 7816 standards.
http://www.idtechproducts.com   (295 words)

  
 Welcome to the Federal Smart Card web site
Provides a library of PowerPoint presentations and documents related to smart cards (Library),
The Smart Card Handbook developed to help agencies develop and deploy smart card systems,
Maintains a database of Government smart card projects (Smart Data),
http://www.smart.gov   (178 words)

  
 Smart Card Integrators, Inc. Smart Card Hardware, Software & Integration
Smart Card Integrators, Inc. Smart Card Hardware, Software and Integration
Next Generation Cashless Gaming Smart Card Casino System
Plastic Card and Smart Card System Integration Services.
http://www.sci-s.com   (156 words)

  
 Oberthur Card Systems
Among GIGAntIC latest technologies, strong cryptographic algorithms will protect the value chain of digital content distributions.
With sales above 600 million dollars in 2005, Oberthur Card Systems is one of the world’s leading providers of card-based solutions, software and applications including SIM and multi-application smart cards as well as services ranging from consulting to personalization.
GIGAntIC™ combines the unrivaled security features of 3G SIM cards with up to 512MB Flash storage, thus allowing operators to propose innovative high ARPU-generating services.
http://www.oberthurcs.com   (183 words)

  
 SCR100 Serial Smart Card Reader
Highly integrated two-chip solution using SCM's proprietary ASIC design
This extensible smart card interface architecture provides interoperability between the widest range of smart cards, operating systems and industry standards.
The SCM SCR100 RS232 smart card reader provides a cost effective, universal and secure interface between smart cards and PCs.
http://www.smart-cardsys.com/products/SCR100Serial.htm   (168 words)

  
 TTFN Home Page
New version Dumbmouse PC/SC Driver version 0.07 now works under Windows XP also works under Windows 95/98/NT/XP/2000 with all GSM SIM Cards
The new and improved PC/SC GUI version of the test and scripting program is now available
Device drivers and smart card projects a specialty
http://www.ttfn.net   (96 words)

  
 Smart Card Alliance
Giesecke & Devrient teams with Amiga to offer high quality mobile
Comparing and Contrasting RFID Tags and Contactless Smart Card Technology
New SKIDATA contactless Combi Card combines the two worlds of SKIDATA and LEGIC®
http://www.smartcardalliance.org   (405 words)

  
 Smart Card Product - Readers, Axiohm
For cost-effectiveness, these units combine smart card read/write and magstripe read capabilities for OEM applications requiring both technologies.
A smart card only version (no magstripe) is available.
American Magnetics introduced the first Magstripe card reader in 1972 and today is a global leader in both Magstripe and Smart Card technology.
http://www.cardlogix.com/product_readers_axiohm.asp   (451 words)

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