Multi-application Smart Cards
Technology and Applications

A comprehensive guide to the technology, market and behavioural aspects involved in implementing multi-application smart cards.

Mike Hendry (Author)

9780521873840, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 June 2007

266 pages, 67 b/w illus.
25.5 x 18 x 2 cm, 0.69 kg

"an indispensible companion for anyone planning a multi-application smart card project"
Martin Walton, Southampton Solent University

Multi-application smart cards have yet to realise their enormous potential, partly because few people understand the technology, market, and behavioural issues involved. Here, Mike Hendry sets out to fill this knowledge gap with a comprehensive and accessible guide. Following a review of the state-of-the-art in smart card technology, the book describes the business requirements of each smart-card-using sector, and the systems required to support multiple applications. Implementation aspects, including security, are treated in detail and numerous international case studies cover identity, telecoms, banking and transportation applications. Lessons are drawn from these studies to help deliver more successful projects in the future. Invaluable for users and integrators specifying, evaluating and integrating multi-application systems, the book will also be useful to terminal, card and system designers; network, IT and security managers; and software specialists.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Background
2. When is a card multi-application?
3. Smart card basics
4. Biometrics
5. Security and cryptography
6. Card technology
7. Readers and terminals
8. Application selection: the ISO 7816 family
9. JavaCard and GlobalPlatform
10. Multos
11. Other operating systems
12. Card management systems
13. Common business requirements
14. Telecommunications
15. Banking
16. Transportation
17. Government and citizens' cards
18. Campus cards and closed user groups
19. Organisation and structure
20. Implementation
21. Prognosis
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. Further reading
Appendix C. Standards
References.

Subject Areas: Spyware [URW], Privacy & data protection [URD], Ethical & social aspects of IT [UBJ], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]