Development and Performance Analysis of Multifunctional City Smart Card System

Further Development of a Smart-card Based Health Care Information System in Slovenia

Based on experience with Slovene Health Insurance Card System, the further development of smart-card based health care information systems is discussed. Emphasis is placed on required functionality starting with smart cards and ending with EDI technology on the other side. The current architecture is investigated in the light of emerging standards and commercial solutions from major software ve...

Smart cards are getting smarter An analysis of the vulnerabilities introduced with Java Card 3 Connected Edition

Towards a Secure and Practical Multifunctional Smart Card

One of the most promising features of smart card technology is its potential to serve several applications using a single hardware token. Existing multifunctional smart cards, however, are either simple and suffer from serious limitations or they have a high complexity that is not justified for most applications. This paper describes a new scheme permitting different applications to flexibly sh...

Securing Operating System Services Based on Smart Cards

The executions of operating system services based on smart cards allow one to personalize some functionalities of the operating system by using the secret information stored in a smart card and the basic computations that a smart card can perform. However, current solutions for integrating smart card features in operating system services require at least a partial execution of the operating sys...

User acceptance of multifunctional smart cards

The introduction of smart cards in the Austrian public sector has been discussed since the late 1980s. Public organisations including the national health insurance institute and the national citizen registration office are in the conceptual phase of the introduction. One of the pilot projects was the roll-out of the multifunctional student ID card to the students of the Vienna University of Eco...