Based on experience with Slovene Health Insurance Card System, the further development of smart-card based health care information systems is discussed. Emphasis is placed on required functionality starting with smart cards and ending with EDI technology on the other side. The current architecture is investigated in the light of emerging standards and commercial solutions from major software ve...

This paper adapts the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use Technology Model (UTAUT) to assess the factors impacting the adoption of smart cards in Medicaid Health Home context. We contribute to the theory by including three constructs specific to smart card and health devices: (i) concern for error, (ii) sickness orientation (iii) concern for data security. Utilizing a survey design we collecte...

Smart cards have been utilized excessively during the last couple of decades. In recent years though, a new generation of smart cards evolved: programmable smart cards. In this paper the authors give an overview of the current state of the technology and compare the cards on the market. They will also examine the trends of development, thus extrapolating their experiences about the present to t...

There is a need for assessing the security of smart cards by an independent third party, specially if multi-application smart cards become reality. Intuitively, the methods to obtain this could be derived from the computer industry where security evaluation already is commonplace, but because of the special properties of smart cards, this seems very difficult. The article discusses the problems...

In this report we discuss several hardware attacks against smart cards. We describe a number of successful attacks against cards such as pay-TV cards and pre-paid phone cards and how these attacks has since been mitigated. We have also looked into a class of attacks called Optical Fault Induction Attacks and described how they work and what a designer can do to prevent them.

The demand for multi-application smart card platform has been increasing in various business sectors recently. When it comes to the actual implementation of the platform, however, network-based dynamic downloading in a CI (Card Issuer)SP (Service Provider) separated environment has not made much progress. This paper proposes our multi-application smart card platform that uses licensing and poli...

Smart cards have been utilized excessively during the last couple of decades. In recent years though, a new generation of smart cards evolved: programmable smart cards. In this paper the authors give an overview of the current state of the technology and compare the cards on the market. They will also examine the trends of development, thus extrapolating their experiences about the present to t...

Recently smart card is used all over the world in different applications such as financial, telecommunication, network, and physical access where the security is considered very crucial. User acceptance is very significant in successful implementation of smart card technology. Thus, in order to investigate the user adoption of the technology, the instrument to identify the user acceptance is ne...

Smart cards are widely used along with PayTV receivers to store secret user keys and to perform security functions to prevent any unauthorized viewing of PayTV channels. Java Card technology enables programs written in the Java programming language to run on smart cards. Smart cards represent one of the smallest computing platforms in use today. The memory configuration of a smart card are of t...