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Smart Card Technology Overview

Smart cards are small plastic cards embedded with an integrated circuit chip that can securely store and process information. They originated in the 1970s from inventors in Germany, Japan, and France. The first widespread use was when French debit cards integrated microchips in the 1980s. Smart cards gained major adoption in the 1990s with SIM cards for mobile phones. Smart cards have processing power beyond simple data storage, allowing secure storage and applications like credit, identity, healthcare, transportation, and more. They interact with readers as contact, contactless, or combination cards and use memory like ROM, EEPROM, and RAM to persistently or transiently store data with security.

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Smart Card Technology Overview

Smart cards are small plastic cards embedded with an integrated circuit chip that can securely store and process information. They originated in the 1970s from inventors in Germany, Japan, and France. The first widespread use was when French debit cards integrated microchips in the 1980s. Smart cards gained major adoption in the 1990s with SIM cards for mobile phones. Smart cards have processing power beyond simple data storage, allowing secure storage and applications like credit, identity, healthcare, transportation, and more. They interact with readers as contact, contactless, or combination cards and use memory like ROM, EEPROM, and RAM to persistently or transiently store data with security.

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Smart Cards

Technology for Secure


Management of Information

Submited by :Rohit Sharma


Roll No:92

MCA 4th Sem.

What is a smart card ?


A small plastic card
embedded with an IC
chip.
A microprocessor capable
of securely storing and
processing information.
Useful for hundreds of
applications
Debit, credit, sim
Identity, memory

History of Smart Cards


Smart Card has its origin in 1970s by inventors from
Germany, Japan and France.
Until mid 80s most of the work on Smart Cards was at
the research and development level.
First use was with the integration of microchips into
all French debit cards.
The major boom in smart card use came in the 1990s,
with the introduction of the smart-card-based SIM
used in GSM mobile phone.

What is SMART about the Smart Cards ??


Smart Cards are capable of not just storing data
but also have processing power.
The data stored can be protected against
unauthorized access.
They are appropriate for secure and convenient
data storage.

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Smart-card ICs provide the logic for
specific card applications.
The ICs are : Memory chips
Microprocessor chips

Types of smart cards


Based on the way the smart card interacts with the
Reader, smart cards are of three types

Contact Smart Cards


Contactless Smart
Cards
Combination Smart
Cards

Pin Configuration
VCC
Reset

GND
VPP
I/O

Clock
Reserved

Reserved

Memory in smart cards


ROM
EEPROM
RAM
Data stored in ROM & EEPROM is
persistent and is kept when power is
lost.
Data stored in RAM is transient, and is
lost as soon as power is lost .

Smart Card Standards


ISO 7816
>ISO7816-1
>ISO7816-2
>ISO7816-3
ISO/IEC 14443, 15693, 7501
ETSI
EMV
Java Card

Applications of Smart Cards


Identification
Credit cards
Healthcare
Electronic purse
Public transport
AND MANY MORE.

Security with smart cards


The standard security goals
Authentication
Confidentiality
Data Integrity
Non-repudiation

Thanks for your kind


attention

Any queries ??

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