The smart card system has been applied for all subway and bus in Seoul metropolitan area since 2004. In Seoul area public transport more than 90% of passengers use smart cards to pay fare. The boarding and alighting information from the smart cards enable to calculate the OD (origindestination) and total travel distance of each transit passenger. The smart card system of Seoul is operated as on...

The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association working to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread application of smart card technology. Through specific projects such as education programs, market research, advocacy, industry relations and open forums, the Alliance keeps its members connected to industry leaders and innovative thought. The Alliance is ...

This paper proposes a “mechanism-based PKI”, in which only a mechanism for generating user's private keys is installed on a smart card. The private key is generated inside the smart card at the event that the legitimate user gives a “seed of private key” to his/her smart card in order to sign a massage. The key exists nowhere except while users are signing a massage. Thus, users no longer need ...

Internet Banking is performed in an insecure environment, that is, both the PC and the web browser may have viruses and spyware. Therefore the sensitive data such as client passwords and financial transactions can be eavesdropped and modified. This paper presents two smart card based solutions for Internet Banking. Unlike most of earlier approaches which handles all the sensitive data using the...

Global Platform’s “Open Platform Specification” sets a new cross-industry standard for smart cards, governing the loading, installation and removal of applications at any time that the card is on-line during the card lifecycle prior to card termination. The Open Platform Protection Profile (OP3) recasts the Open Platform (OP) security requirements into the language of the Common Criteria (CC) t...

Traditionally, smart cards have been used as secure tokens in identity based access control. That is, a smart card has been used as an intelligent storage of protected cryptographic information, such as a shared secret or a private key in a public key system. The cryptographic information is then used to prove the possession of the card in a secure way either locally or remotely over telecommun...

Medication error has been identified as a major factor affecting patient safety. Many innovative efforts such as Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE), a Pharmacy Information System, automated dispensing machines and Point of Administration Systems have been carried out with the aim of improving medication safety. However, areas remain that require urgent attention. One main area will be th...

With the rapid growth of information technologies, mobile devices have been utilized in a variety of services such as e‐commerce. When a remote server provides such e‐commerce services to a user, it must verify the legitimacy of the user over an insecure communication channel. Therefore, remote user authentication has been widely deployed to verify the legitimacy of re...

Smart cards are now being extensively deployed for identity verification(smart identity tokens) for controlling access to Information Technology (IT) resources as well as physical resources. Depending upon the sensitivity of the resources and the risk of wrong identification, different authentication use cases are being deployed. Assignment of authentication strength for each of the use cases i...