Smart Card Programming

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

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.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in Smart Cards, E-smart 2001, held in Cannes, France, in September 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. Among the topics addressed are biometrics, cryptography and electronic signatures on smart card security, formal methods for smart card evaluation and certification, architectures for multi-applications and secure open platforms, and middleware for smart cards and novel applications of smart cards.

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.

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/

Smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, ands as secure tokens for authentication or digital signatures. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java and the OpenCard Framework. It gives you the basic information you need about smart cards and how they work. A smart card provided with the book will help you to obtain first-hand experience.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in Smart Cards, E-smart 2001, held in Cannes, France, in September 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. Among the topics addressed are biometrics, cryptography and electronic signatures on smart card security, formal methods for smart card evaluation and certification, architectures for multi-applications and secure open platforms, and middleware for smart cards and novel applications of smart cards.