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SMART CARD TECHNICAL LINKS

� Java Card API 2.1 Specification Draft Review
� Cyberflex Access
� Smart Card Basics
� OpenCard CardTerminal for Gemplus GCR410 reader
� Write OpenCard services for downloading Java Card apps;

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Smart Card Technology

TUTORIALS

Article: Smart Card Basics
This paper was supplied by CardLogix and provides a good overview of smart card basics, covering the different types of chip cards, their functions, card standards and an informative section on planning a smart card systems and which questions to ask.

Report: Overview of Smart Card Security
This paper discusses the security of the smart card in three different aspects: how the physical structure of a smart card protects the data through the card’s life cycle, how the data is protected through logical controls over the files in the card and, finally, how the smart card can provide a secure and authenticated environment for applications through procedural operation and mechanism.

  Standards & Platforms

Specifications & documentation from JavaSoft: Java Card 2.1.1
The Java Card specifications enable Java technology to run on smart cards and other devices with limited memory. The Java Card API allows applications written for one Java Card-enabled smart card platform, to run on any other Java Card-enabled platform.

JavaCard Forum: www.javacardforum.org
The primary purpose of the Java Card Forum is to promote Java as the preferred programming language for multiple-application smart cards.  Current work is focused on vertical market extensions to the core specification for GSM telecom, banking and information technology.

Article: Understanding Java Card 2.0
This article gets inside a Java Card, providing you, the developer, with technical guidance on the system architecture, application programming interface, and runtime environment of the Java platform in a smart card.

Schlumberger development kit: Cyberflex
Cyberflex Acces Java Card features 16Kbytes EEPROM and default security commands including external and internal authentication using DES, triple DES or RSA.  The Cyberflex Development Kit has been upgraded and enhanced to support the new functions of Cyberflex Access and continues to offer a PC/SC interface to developers for their Windows based applications.

OpenCard Framework

Specifications & documentation: OCF
The OpenCard Framework is an open standard providing an architecture and a set of APIs that enable application developers and service providers to build and deploy smart card aware solutions in any OpenCard-compliant environment.  OpenCard Framework is Java-based and serves as an application platform for smart cards and card terminals.

Article: Smart cards and the OpenCard Framework
This article describes in detail the design objectives of the card terminal part of OpenCard and then implement an OpenCard card terminal for two readers: the IBM 5948 card terminal, and the Reflex20 PCCARD reader from Schlumberger.