A complete nuts-and-bolts guide to designing, building, and managing the smart card system that's right for your company Already a well-established medium of exchange in Europe, smart card technology has made major inroads in the North American market in the past few years. Visa and Mastercard are committed to replacing credit cards with them over the next five years, and Microsoft is racing to use them for e-commerce. Clearly, the time for asking "Why?" regarding smart cards has passed. The important question companies now should be asking themselves is "How?": how to plan, how to develop, how to implement, and how to manage the smart card system that is right for our company? This book provides complete, unbiased answers to these and all your technical and business questions about smart card systems. Dreifus and Monk guide you step-by-step through the entire process of selecting, designing, building, and managing a smart card application tailored to your business. They supply numerous checklists to help guarantee that you make the correct technical decisions during each phase of the process. And they include real-world case studies illustrating successful smart card implementations in a variety of industries, including banking, manufacturing, entertainment, healthcare, and transportation. Crucial topics covered in detail include: * Smart card architectures and standards * Security and encryption * Smart card operating systems * Smart card application design and development * Development tools * Testing and certification Smart Cards arms you with everything you need to know to make informed decisions about the smart card system that's right for your company.

Building on previous editions, this third edition of the Smart Card Handbook offers a completely updated overview of the state of the art in smart card technology. Everything you need to know about smart cards and their applications is covered! Fully revised, this handbook describes the advantages and disadvantages of smart cards when compared with other systems, such as optical cards and magnetic stripe cards and explains the basic technologies to the reader. This book also considers the actual status of appropriate European and international standards. Features include: New sections on: smart card applications (PKCS #15, USIM, Tachosmart). smart card terminals: M.U.S.C.L.E., OCF, MKT, PC/SC. contactless card data transmission with smart cards. Revised and updated chapters on: smart cards in the telecommunications industry (GSM, UMTS, (U)SIM application toolkit, decoding of the files of a GSM card). smart card security (new attacks, new protection methods against attacks). A detailed description of the physical and technical properties and the fundamental principles of information processing techniques. Explanations of the architecture of smart card operating systems, data transfer to and from the smart card, command set and implementation of the security mechanisms and the function of the smart card terminals. Current applications of the technology on mobile telephones, telephone cards, the electronic purse and credit cards. Discussions on future developments of smart cards: USB, MMU on microcontroller, system on card, flash memory and their usage. Practical guidance on the future applications of smart cards, including health insurance cards, e-ticketing, wireless security, digital signatures and advanced electronic payment methods. “The book is filled with information that students, enthusiasts, managers, experts, developers, researchers and programmers will find useful. The book is well structured and provides a good account of smart card state-of-the-art technology… There is a lot of useful information in this book and as a practicing engineer I found it fascinating, and extremely useful.” Review of second edition in Measurement and Control. 'The standard has got a lot higher, if you work with smart cards then buy it! Highly recommended.’ Review of second edition in Journal of the Association of C and C++ Programmers. Visit the Smart Card Handbook online at www.wiley.co.uk/commstech/

Power analysis attacks allow the extraction of secret information from smart cards. Smart cards are used in many applications including banking, mobile communications, pay TV, and electronic signatures. In all these applications, the security of the smart cards is of crucial importance. Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards is the first comprehensive treatment of power analysis attacks and countermeasures. Based on the principle that the only way to defend against power analysis attacks is to understand them, this book explains how power analysis attacks work. Using many examples, it discusses simple and differential power analysis as well as advanced techniques like template attacks. Furthermore, the authors provide an extensive discussion of countermeasures like shuffling, masking, and DPA-resistant logic styles. By analyzing the pros and cons of the different countermeasures, this volume allows practitioners to decide how to protect smart cards.

This book provides a broad overview of the many card systems and solutions that are in practical use today. This new edition adds content on RFIDs, embedded security, attacks and countermeasures, security evaluation, javacards, banking or payment cards, identity cards and passports, mobile systems security, and security management. A step-by-step approach educates the reader in card types, production, operating systems, commercial applications, new technologies, security design, attacks, application development, deployment and lifecycle management. By the end of the book the reader should be able to play an educated role in a smart card related project, even to programming a card application. This book is designed as a textbook for graduate level students in computer science. It is also as an invaluable post-graduate level reference for professionals and researchers. This volume offers insight into benefits and pitfalls of diverse industry, government, financial and logistics aspects while providing a sufficient level of technical detail to support technologists, information security specialists, engineers and researchers.

With Smart Card Programming the reader will have the expert guidance he need to work with smart cards. The book offers a comprehensive guide, to the technological aspects related to smart cards, providing an high level overview of the technological panorama and giving an in-depth technical coverage about the related architectures, programming paradigms and APIs. The first part of the book introduces the smart card technologies, the general concepts and a few case studies. It is addressed also to non-technical reader who wishes an high level overview on smart card world. The second part of the book is a technical guide to smart card specifications and programming paradigms. It dives into technical topics about smart card programming and applications development in C/C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java. Key features include: - Contact and Contactless Cards - ISO 7816 - NFC - JavaCard Framework - PC/SC - PKCS#11 - OpenCard Framework - Java - Smart Card I/O - GlobalPlatform - EMV

Smart cards are currently used throughout the world for making electronic cash, debit and credit payments. It is anticipated that within four years, over 2.5 billion smart cards will be in use, with over 25% of that activity expected to be in the U.S. This book brings readers face to face with the potential impact of the smart card and provides insights on implementing new technologies and innovations.

Annotation "This book is a guide to developing applications with Java Card technology. It introduces you to the Java Card platform and features discussions of programming concepts. It also provides a step-by-step Java Card applet development guide to get you up and running." "Specific topics covered include: smart card basics; Java Card virtual machine; persistent and transient objects; atomicity and transactions; handling APDUs; applet firewall and object sharing; Java Card platform security; a step-by-step applet development guide; applet optimization guidelines; and a comprehensive reference to Java Card APIs."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Smart Card Developer's Kit is designed to provide the practical information you need to design and build applications that incorporate smart cards. Using a combination of detailed exposition, technical reference summaries, and extended examples, this book familiarizes you with the unique strengths and capabilities of this emerging computer technology. Increase your security from a one-factor security-a password-to a two-factor security-a smart card and its PIN. Use the smart card as a portable place to carry your personal preference information and your identity-establishing private signing key. In marketing applications, a smart card offers a much wider and more flexible set of customer benefits than a magnetic-strip card or a paper record card. A smart card can also carry secured information-such as medical records, licenses, subscriptions, and accreditations-that must be guarded against tampering.

Collecting fares through "smart cards" is becoming standard in most advanced public transport networks of major cities around the world. Travellers value their convenience and operators the reduced money handling fees. Electronic tickets also make it easier to integrate fare systems, to create complex time and space differentiated fare systems, and to provide incentives to specific target groups. A less-utilised benefit is the data collected through smart cards. Records, even if anonymous, provide for a much better understanding of passengers’ travel behaviour as current literature shows. This information can also be used for better service planning. Public Transport Planning with Smart Card Data handles three major topics: how passenger behaviour can be estimated using smart card data, how smart card data can be combined with other trip databases, and how the public transport service level can be better evaluated if smart card data is available. The book discusses theory as well as applications from cities around the world and will be of interest to researchers and practitioners alike who are interested in the state-of-the-art as well as future perspectives that smart card data will bring.

A practical guide to the specification, design, and programming of smart card systems for working applications. More than 3 billion smartcards are produced every year. Generally defined as any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits or chips, they have a huge number of applications including travel cards, chip and pin cards, pet tags, mobile phone SIMs and pallet trackers. Now with modern Smart Card technology such as Java Card and Basic Card it is possible for everyone to create his or her own applications on a smart card. This book provides generic solutions for programming smart cards, enabling the creation of working applications and systems. Key features: Presents a comprehensive introduction to the topic of smart cards, explaining component elements and the smart card microcontrollers. Sets out information on operating systems with case studies of a range of applications including credit card security, mobile phones and transport payment cards. Gives detailed advice on the monitoring of smart card applications, recognizing potential attacks on security and improving system integrity. Provides modules and examples so that all types of systems can be built up from a small number of individual components. Offers guidelines on avoiding and overcoming design errors. Ideal for practising engineers and designers looking to implement smart cards in their business, it is also a valuable reference for postgraduate students taking courses on embedded system and smart card design.