Smart Card
CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction: * 1979 Motorola developed first single chip Microcontroller for French Banking * 1982 World 's first major IC card testing * 1992 Nationwide prepaid card project started in Denmark * 1999 Federal Government began a Federal employee smart card identification
Smart Card or Chip card technology is fast becoming commonplace in our culture and daily lives. We hope that this site will bring you a little closer in your understanding of this exciting technology and the benefits it can bring to your applications. If you have specific questions regarding a specific technology discussed below feel free to send us an email and the appropriate site sponsor will respond. A smart card, a type of chip card, is a plastic card embedded with a computer chip that stores and transacts data between users. This data is associated with either value or information or both and is stored and processed within the card’s chip, either a memory or microprocessor. The card data is transacted via a reader that is part of a computing system. Smart card-enhanced systems are in use today throughout several key applications, including healthcare, banking, entertainment and transportation. To various degrees, all applications can benefit from the added features and security that smart cards provide. According to Euro smart, worldwide smart card shipments will grow 10% in 2010 to 5.455 billion cards. Markets that have been traditionally served by other machine readable card technologies such as bar-code and magnetic stripe are converting as the calculated return on investment is revisited by the each card issuer year after year. First introduced in Europe nearly three decades ago, smart cards debuted as a stored value tool for pay phones to reduce theft. In the U.S., consumers have been using chip cards for everything from visiting libraries to buying groceries to attending movies, firmly integrating them into our
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction: * 1979 Motorola developed first single chip Microcontroller for French Banking * 1982 World 's first major IC card testing * 1992 Nationwide prepaid card project started in Denmark * 1999 Federal Government began a Federal employee smart card identification
Smart Card or Chip card technology is fast becoming commonplace in our culture and daily lives. We hope that this site will bring you a little closer in your understanding of this exciting technology and the benefits it can bring to your applications. If you have specific questions regarding a specific technology discussed below feel free to send us an email and the appropriate site sponsor will respond. A smart card, a type of chip card, is a plastic card embedded with a computer chip that stores and transacts data between users. This data is associated with either value or information or both and is stored and processed within the card’s chip, either a memory or microprocessor. The card data is transacted via a reader that is part of a computing system. Smart card-enhanced systems are in use today throughout several key applications, including healthcare, banking, entertainment and transportation. To various degrees, all applications can benefit from the added features and security that smart cards provide. According to Euro smart, worldwide smart card shipments will grow 10% in 2010 to 5.455 billion cards. Markets that have been traditionally served by other machine readable card technologies such as bar-code and magnetic stripe are converting as the calculated return on investment is revisited by the each card issuer year after year. First introduced in Europe nearly three decades ago, smart cards debuted as a stored value tool for pay phones to reduce theft. In the U.S., consumers have been using chip cards for everything from visiting libraries to buying groceries to attending movies, firmly integrating them into our
References: * Siu-cheung Charles Chan 's Overview of Smart Card Security, 1997 * Design Principles for Tamper-Resistant Smart Card Processors, Oliver Kömmerling and Markus Kuhn, 1999 * STMicroelectronic 's Security Press Release, 1998 * Orlin Grabbe 's 1999 article in the Laissez-Faire City Times * IBM 's Research on Power Analysis Attacks * Y.L.Chan and H.Y.Chan 's Java Smart Cards, 1998 * Linux Smart Card Tutorial