Archives for November 2010
Books: Smart Card
For those of you who still prefer to get your information “the old fashioned way,” here’s a selection of reading material that you can enjoy in the comfort of your bed before nodding off to sleep and dreaming of smart cards.Smart Card Applications: Design Models for Using and Programming Smart Cards (Wolfgang Rankl) provides generic [...]
Smart Card Alliance
With technology progressing as quickly as it is, sometimes it’s important to be aligned with a group that focuses on the education and appropriate use of the technological advancements. In the case of smart cards, that organization is the Smart Card Alliance which is comprised of 170 worldwide members drawn from areas such as the [...]
Smart Card FAQ
What is a smart card? Historically a smart card has been a credit-card-sized plastic card that contains an integrated circuit with memory and circuitry controlling the access rules to the memory. What makes the card “smart” (as compared to a memory card or magnetic card) is the enforcing of access control rules to the memory. [...]