Manufacturers and producers of smart card systems are all beginning to climb on the certification bandwagon. In this paper, we analyse the current state of smart card certifications and present arguments as to why smart card certifications may not be all they seem. We discuss certifications issued under the ITSEC and Common Criteria and analyse shortcomings and inconsistencies that appear to ex...

The control of the application choice is delegated to the smart card users in the User Centric Smart Card Ownership Model (UCOM). There is no centralised authority that controls the card environment, and it is di cult to have implicit trust on applications installed on a smart card. The application sharing mechanism in smart cards facilitates corroborative and interrelated applications to co-ex...

The combined benefits of smart card to support mobility in a pocket coupled with the ubiquitous access of Web technology, present a new paradigm for medical information access systems. The paper describes the framework of Java Card Web Servlet (JCWS) that is being developed to provide seamless access interface between a Web browser and a Java-enabled smart card. Importantly, the smart card is v...

Recently, Yoon et al. proposed a new smart card based remote user authentication scheme. We show that this scheme is subject to forgery attacks if the information stored in the smart card is stolen. This violates the “twofactor security” objective of the smart card based remote user authentication schemes. We propose an amendment to this problem. We further propose two new schemes which are mor...

Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format. The economy that is based on digital computing technologies is known as Digital Economy. The digital economy is also sometimes called the Internet Economy or Web Economy. Right now, in most of the countries, inside the people’s wallet, they probably have a couple of credit cards, an identification card, automatic telle...

Current payment methods, that are based on cash and magnetic strip cards, are either expensive to use, or they do not offer enough security for payments. Smart card based payment systems offer several benefits over currently used cash and magnetic strip cards. Building and delivering smart card based payments systems is not an easy task. It includes several risks and some of them are addressed ...

This document describes an industrial application of the B method in smart card applications. In smart card memory, data modification may be interrupted due to a card withdrawal or a power loss. The EEPROM memory may result in an unstable state and the values subsequently read may be erroneous. The transaction mechanism provides a secure means for modifying data located in the EEPROM. As the se...

The User Centric Smart Card Ownership Model (UCOM) provides an open and dynamic smart card environment enabling cardholders to request installation/deletion of an application to which they are entitled. As in this model, smart cards are not under the control of a centralised authority; hence, it is di cult for an application provider to ascertain their trustworthiness. At present, proposed secu...

Near Field Communication (NFC) has reinvigorated the multiapplication smart card initiative. The NFC trials are relying on an extension of Issuer Centric Smart Card Model (ICOM) referred as Trusted Service Manager (TSM) architecture, which may create market segregation. Where the User Centric Smart Card Ownership Model (UCOM) takes an opposite approach of delegating the smart card ownership to ...

we treat in this paper a secure authentication method using watermarking, smart card and cryptography. It can serve to control logical and physical access and the network access and to prove the card owner identity.This method is very secure because the high level of security of smart card, the method of watermarking and detection and the complexity of the algorithm RSA and DES aim to remove th...