OF THE THESIS SMART CARD APPLICATION DESIGN by John Smeh, B.Bus(Hons) V U T , B.Sci V U T , Dip.Sci. V U T This study investigated sociotechnical criteria in the design and specification processes of smart card based projects through a case study. The adoption of the innovations in the case study was investigated. The study consisted of three phases: analysis, design and implementation. These w...

This short paper introduces the issues and challenges of next generation Java-based smart card platforms. Betting on a continuous evolution toward open computing devices, next generation cards will consist in embedded Java micro-server platforms. Those platforms will be able to serve various types of services and applications thanks to two important system features: adaptability and maintainabi...

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The project envisages the implementation of an e-payment system utilizing FIPS-201 Smart Card. The system combines hardware and software modules. The hardware module takes data insertions (e.g. currency notes), processes the data and then creates connection with the smart card using serial/USB ports to perform further mathematical manipulations. The hardware interacts with servers at the back f...

Very recently a scheme has been proposed by Wang and Ma for a robust smart-card based password authentication scheme, which claims to be secure against a Smart Card security breach. In this short note we attempt an initial cryptanalysis of this scheme.

Java Card provides a framework of classes and interfaces that hides the details of the underlying smart card interface and makes it possible to load and run on the same card several applets, from different application providers with complex trust relationships. This fact opens prospects for new business applications, but the card issuer has to secure absence of malicious or faulty card applets....

After having used multimedia services from his desktop computer, the mobile user wishes today to access these services whatever the terminal or network used. In this paper, we propose an autonomic service provisioning solution to mobile users and suggest the use of a smart card as an autonomy enabler. Service portability, adaptation and session mobility management is handled entirely by the sma...

Smart cards are widely used for security purposes. To protect smart cards against misuse an authentication process (e.g. entering a pin or password) is necessary. Due to missing input interfaces “on-card”, an external terminal is required to input the password. Unfortunately the required external hardware (e.g. keypads, etc.) opens up new security issues by being vulnerable against attacks like...

This paper presents smart cards and their operating systems. First smart cards categories, evolution, their hardware, their software and general operating systems are discussed. Then main open operating systems that have bigger market exposure such as java card, MULTOS, windows card are described in successive chapters.

Smart cards (also called chip cards or IC-cards) are portable modest computing devices with programmable data store and certain tamper-resistance capabilities. They are embedded in a plastic card that looks like a traditional magnetic stripe credit-card. We review the state of the art of e-commerce applications of smart cards.