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Smart Card Overview
A smart card is a card that is embedded with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip with non-programmable logic. The microprocessor card can add, delete, and otherwise manipulate information on the card, while a memory-chip card (for example, pre-paid phone cards) can only undertake a pre-defined operation.
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smart card System Design
Most smart card programming consists of writing programs on a host computer that send commands to and receive results from predefined or application-specific smart cards. These applications read data from and write data to the smart card and perhaps make use of the modest computing powers of the processor on the smart card.
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Smart Card White Paper
Smart Card technology is one of the most recent computer revolutions, making its way worldwide into the hands and wallets of everyone. A Smart Card is the size of a standard plastic ''credit card'' with an embedded microprocessor chip. The chip holds various types of information in electronic form with sophisticated security mechanisms.
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What is a smart card?
A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, but inside it is completely different. First of all, it has an inside -- a normal credit card is a simple piece of plastic. The inside of a smart card usually contains an embedded 8-bit microprocessor.
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A Smart Card for Everyone?
Europe and Asia are racing to deploy smart cards for everything from banking to telecommunications to retail. While the U.S. lags way behind, the need for better security is helping American businesses get on track.
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Washable smart card readers: Cleaning up a security site and keeping it operable
Smart card technology use is increasing as a means of providing data security electronically. Washable smart card readers are of fundamental value in the military because they can be quickly cleansed from the effects of harsh environmental conditions and contamination. Several standards are in place to designate which smart card readers are most appropriate for government or military use.
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what is a SMART CARD?
Smart cards may look like any other plastic card with a magnetic stripe on the back, but they're a radically different technology. While consumer advertising has tried to downplay the differences between smart cards and normal credit cards--other than to tout them as 'safer'--the differences are what make smart cards worth considering.
preview: http://www.infosecuritymag.com   date: 3/1/2002