An overview of smart card technology and markets

As part of the Payment Cards Center's series of discussion papers, this paper provides an overview of smart card technology and its potential for significantly increasing payment card functionality. In addition to reviewing the current market for smart cards in the U.S., this paper examines the costs and barriers associated with their wide spread adoption. European and US smart card acceptance is compared. In addition, this paper provides background on the technological and infrastructure developments behind smart cards, a discussion of current smart card applications, and a review of smart card adoption in banking.Smart cards

Remote attestation mechanism for embedded devices based on physical unclonable functions

Remote attestation mechanisms are well studied in the high-end computing environments; however, the same is not true for embedded devices-especially for smart cards. With ever changing landscape of smart card technology and advancements towards a true multi-application platform, verifying the current state of the smart card is significant to the overall security of such proposals. The initiatives proposed by GlobalPlatform Consumer Centric Model (GP-CCM) and User Centric Smart Card Ownership Model (UCOM) enables a user to download any application as she desire-depending upon the authorisation of the application provider. Before an application provider issues an application to a smart card, verifying the current state of the smart card is crucial to the security of the respective application. In this paper, we analyse the rationale behind the remote attestation mechanism for smart cards, and the fundamental features that such a mechanism should possess. We also study the applicability of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) for the remote attestation mechanism and propose two algorithms to achieve the stated features of remote attestation. The proposed algorithms are implemented in a test environment to evaluate their performance. © 2013 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved

Smart Card Driving License System in Gujarat

Gujarat was the first state in India which introduced the smart card license system in 1999. It was the first place in the world which introduced this innovative system and, thus, its implementation was a real challenge. As of now, Gujarat Government has issued 5 million smart card driving licenses to its people. This card is basically a plastic card having ISO 7810 certification and integrated circuit,capable of storing and verifying information according to its programming. To avoid corruption and mismanagement of driving licence, in the year 1999,Gujarat State Government launched the smart card driving license system, which has become the success story for dif ferent states of India and overseas countries such as USA.Transport, Infrastructure,Urban

Miniatur Access Control Ruang Kuliah dengan Menggunakan Smart Card

Pada penelitian ini dibuat suatu alat berupa miniatur access control ruang kuliah dengan menggunakan smart card. Alat ini yang diharapkan mampu membatasi access control pada ruang kuliah terdiri atas: smart card socket, mikrokontroler, SD card, LCD, relay, keypad, kunci pintu elektronik, dan RTC, serta beberapa aplikasi yang mungkin untuk digunakan dalam suatu ruang kuliah. Pengguna smart card (dosen atau pertugas cleaning service, cs) dapat memasukkan smart card (memasukkan smart card satu per satu) ke dalam socket smart card. Mikrokontroler yang telah terhubung dengan socket smart card akan mampu mengenali smart card yang dimasukkan dan akan membuka kunci pintu kemudian mengaktifkan fasilitas yang digunakan sesuai klasifikasi pengguna smart card tersebut. Dan juga pada saat ruang yang diakses akan ada pencatatan pada SD card. Pencatatan pada SD card berupa nama, waktu masuk, dan waktu ke luar. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan cara memasukkan smart card satu per satu ke dalam smart card socket dan kemudian melihat hasil pencatatan di SD card dengan menggunakan komputer. Dari hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa pembacaan smart card dan pencatatan pada SD card sudah berhasil dengan baik. Dengan pembacaan smart card dan pencatatan SD card dapat disimpulkan bahwa alat secara keseluruhan dapat berfungsi dengan baik

Modelling Smart Card Security Protocols in SystemC TLM

Smart cards are an example of advanced chip technology. They allow information transfer between the card holder and the system over secure networks, but they contain sensitive data related to both the card holder and the system, that has to be kept private and confidential. The objective of this work is to create an executable model of a smart card system, including the security protocols and transactions, and to examine the strengths and determine the weaknesses by running tests on the model. The security objectives have to be considered during the early stages of systems development and design, an executable model will give the designer the advantage of exploring the vulnerabilities early, and therefore enhancing the system security. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 is used to model the smart card security protocol. The executable model is programmed in SystemC with the Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) extensions. The final model was used to examine the effectiveness of a number of authentication mechanisms with different probabilities of failure. In addition, a number of probable attacks on the current security protocol were modeled to examine the vulnerabilities. The executable model shows that the smart card system security protocols and transactions need further improvement to withstand different types of security attacks