Smart card technology has evolved over the last few years following notable improvements in the underlying hardware and software platforms. Advanced smart card microprocessors, along with robust smart card operating systems and platforms, contribute towards a broader acceptance of the technology. These improvements have eliminated some of the traditional smart card security concerns. However, r...

Single unit recording has been used as a well-known technique to study the electrical behavior of neurons. In this respect, the classical methods are rather expensive. In this study a simple and inexpensive method for single unit recording studies has been introduced. Computer sound card was used for data acquisition. Neural responses were saved via simple sound applicable packages and then ana...

The current situation of smart cards being used is one where each industry or card issuer has their own mutually non-compatible card specifications and the mutual use among differing smart card systems is difficult. This project will attempt to systematically unify the existing multiple card specifications. By developing a platform system for smart cards based on advanced architecture that can ...

Java Cards are widely used to provide a way of running Java applets on a smart card. The widespread use of the Java Card platform makes it a target for a security research. Attacks on the Java Card platform is an interesting research topic and a lot of studies of physical, logical and combined attacks were published in the last years. This thesis is focused on the study of logical attacks on th...

In the past ten years, the field of information retrieval has witnessed the development of many new systems, devices, and theories. In particular, two opposing “schools” of thought on card indexing systems have developed. One claims that the term card (unit term) or “collating” system is the most desirable. The other advocates the document card (unit record) or ‘‘scanning” system. Dr. Whaley ha...

Conventional credit card transactions are not consistent with Islamic principles, as exemplified by the Islamic banking system and the ‘Murabaha sale’. On the other hand, EMV-compliant IC (Integrated Circuit) cards have been developed to secure traditional Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Thus, if Islamic principles are to be applied to card payments, a new and secure card payment process is r...

The smart card has a microprocessor or a memory chip embedded in a plastic card. It has been in wide use in Europe and Japan for payment, entry into buildings and computer systems, and storage and access of special types of information. In the US, despite efforts by the credit card industry, the smart card has not been nearly as widely adopted as in Europe and Japan. In this article, we will re...

EEPROM as persistent memory in smart card has some different features with other memories. It consists of the pages with a fixed size and has the characteristics due to them. It is more efficient to consider them and to handle EEPROM by page than to think of it as a seamless space and to deal with it as one large chunk. Because smart card is categorized as the device closely interactive with us...

Smart cards are being used to provide security for many types of applications, and with an estimated market of 3.3 billion in 2005, their usefulness is based on their intrinsic portability and security. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated the Smart Card Interoperability Program to provide standards (Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification –GSC-IS) an...

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...