Smart cards have been deployed as trusted components in a wide range of industries. The basis of the trust on a smart card platform and applications is static and evaluated before the card issuance to cardholders. A dynamic and post-issuance security assurance and validation mechanism can be useful, but it is not considered necessary in the Issuer Centric Smart Card Ownership Model. However, in...

Usually, testing smart card software is carried-out by specialized engineers in a proprietary language. Testing represents generally half of smart card development effort. With the increasing use of semi-formal and formal modeling languages, such as UML, and the emergence of automatic test generators in the industry, we have studied a way to adapt these techniques for smart card. In this articl...

Smart card is a secure device for remote authentication. However, if cardholders lost their card, attackers always can successfully guess passwords and impersonate legal users to login. In 2004, Lee et al. proposed a remote authentication scheme with smart cards. In this paper, we first show that their scheme cannot withstand the guessing attack. If attackers obtain the card, they can successfu...

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 ...

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...

The use of an electronic smart card as an alternative means for users to access and pay for transport services is now emerging as a viable option for many operators. With the recent introduction of the Oyster smart card by Transport for London and the plans by a number of passenger transport executives and transport operators to launch smart-card ticketing, the UK is on the verge of an influx o...

In recent technology smart card (Debit Card/Credit Card) is used for many of the activities such as marketing, online transactions, in ATMs etc. But due to theft/cracking of smart card passwords there would be an unusual loss of property. Hence in this paper i introduce some combinational techniques of securing the smart card using a biometric algorithm. This algorithm uses fingerprint recognit...

This paper discusses an approach to share a smart card in one machine with other machines accessible on the local network or the Internet. This allows a user at a browser to use the shared card remotely and access web applications that require smart card authentication. This also enables users to access these applications from browsers and machines that do not have the capability to use a smart...

The availability of programmable cryptographic smart cards provides possibility to run application in significantly more secured environment then ordinary personal computer. Smart card platforms like Java Card or .NET allow to implement portable applications that can be run on different smart card hardware. Barriers for a skilled Java developer switching to the Java Card platform are relatively...

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...