The telecare medical information system enables the patients gain health monitoring and access healthcare-related services over internet or mobile networks. Due to the open environment, the mutual authentication between the user and the telecare server will thus be in demand. Many smart card based authentication schemes for telecare medicine information systems have been proposed for the goals....

With the increasing use of the Web as the platform for online e-commerce applications, smart card technology presents an attractive solution for providing security and access control mechanisms for processing online transactions. A user can insert the smart card into a reader attached to a terminal that provides Web access and client-side processing capabilities; the card performs all processin...

It seems that virtually every technical paper which describes a new technology to "make the world a better place", includes the term "smart" to refer to some aspect of this new technology. The technical literature is filled with smart capacitors, smart resistors, smart rectifiers, smart op-amps, smart memory, smart circuits, smart cards, smart systems, smart networks, smart partners, smart opin...

Java is the ideal development platform for mobile code systems. It ensures application portability and mobility for a variety of platforms, while providing strong security features. The intermediate code (byte code) allows us to verify statically (i.e. during loading phase) that the program is trustworthy. This is done by a software security module called the byte code verifier. Given the compl...

Authentic program modification is very important for a multi-application smart card system since applications in the system are realized after the issuance of the smart card. In this paper, we propose a framework for such authentic program modification. In our framework, before issuing a smart card to an individual, the card issuer stores a unique long bit string called PID on the card. From th...

This paper describes the motivation and technological innovation of Network Smart Card, a next generation smart card architecture that supports standard Internet communication and security protocols. It outlines the role of these next generation smart cards in addressing some of the weaknesses inherent in current Internet authentication frameworks. The paper evaluates several common methods of ...

As VLSI technology has been improved, a smart card employing 32-bit processors has been released, and more personal information such as medical, financial data can be stored in the card. Thus, it becomes important to protect personal information stored in the card. Verification of the card holder’s identity using a fingerprint has advantages over the present practices of Personal Identification...