Smart Cards: The Developer's Toolkit - Softcover

Jurgensen, Timothy M.; Guthery, Scott B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130937304 ISBN 13: 9780130937308

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Smart cards are mini-computers the size of a credit card with a metal interface. Written for IT managers and developers interested in the potential benefits offered by smart card technology, this guide overviews the physical structure and construction of smart cards, international standards, commercial commands, protocol stacks, and current applications. Both fixed command set and post-issuance programmable cards are covered. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

TIMOTHY M. JURGENSEN is an independent consultant specializing in smart cards and high-security infrastructures. Jurgensen has consulted on several projects utilizing smart cards for network and physical access, contributes to key smart card standards bodies, and is actively involved in security certifications for smart cards.

SCOTT B. GUTHERY is currently Chief Technical Officer for Mobile-Mind, Inc., where he is designing and building Fujitsu's new smart card operating system, HIPERSIM. He developed the technical solutions and led the team that created the original Java Smart Card at Schlumberger, and was architect of Microsoft's Windows for Smart Card Operating System. Jurgensen and Guthery co-authored The Smart Card Developer's Kit, a leading resource for smart card software development and the first book to contain a smart card.

From the Back Cover

The complete smart card guidebook for decision-makers, product managers, developers, and integrators.

• Smart card application development from start to finish: design, development, and deployment
• Covers every component of a complete system: cards, readers, host software, management systems, and more
• Focuses on advanced "post issuance programmable" multi-application smart cards
• Presents detailed case studies and product coverage
• Offers up-to-the-minute insights into the evolving smart card marketplace and smart card technology

Smart cards represent a breakthrough solution for maximizing security in a wide range of applications. Now, two leading smart card consultants present a thorough, up-to-date, accessible introduction to smart card technology that will be invaluable to developers and decision-makers alike. Smart Cards: A Developer's Toolkit covers all you need to know to plan, design, develop, and deploy advanced multi-application smart card environments, including:

• Smart card physical structure, construction, tamper resistance, and tamper-evident features
• International standards, inter-industry command sets, and industry specifications
• "Post issuance programmable" smart cards: the cutting edge of smart card deployment
• An in-depth review of two "high-performance" smart cards, including one multi-application card
• PC and workstation host software for supporting smart cards
• Applications with the SIM smart cards in GSM and 3G mobile phones
• Card management systems and readers for large-scale applications in real-world environments
• The evolving marketplace for smart cards in the U.S. and worldwide

The authors present case studies from today's most advanced smart card deployments, covering both the logistics of initial deployment and best practices for supporting ongoing operations and card populations. Whether you're an IT manager, corporate security officer, product manager, developer, or integrator, Smart Cards: A Developer's Toolkit gives you a powerful new weapon for protecting your digital assets.

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Preface

The technical groundwork has been laid for wide-spectrum exploitation of smart card technology in both commercial and enterprise venues. Our goal in this book is to provide IT managers, system architects, system analysts, and application developers with the basic information about smart card technology that they need to open the tap on the incredible value stored in this technology.

Information about smart cards and the technical detail needed to harness the technology has historically been very hard to come by. This, more than any other factor, has been the barrier to the use of smart cards. Whereas they once had a unique value offer, smart cards now have many technical substitutes. Belatedly, the smart card industry has realized that either applications carry cards into the mainstream of everyday use or they will join eight-track tapes, monorail trains, cold fusion, magnetic bubbles, and Betamax video in the dustbin of technical curiosities.

A smart card is just a computer. We know how that story plays out. We've seen it in mainframes, mini-computers, desktop computers, and laptops. You have apps and you connect or you die. The smart card will follow the same path.

Some computing device will capture the next and, yet again, more personal level of computing. It will be our avatar on the Internet. It will be our digital wallet. It will be the keeper of our digital persona. The smart card is in the race. It's cheap. It's portable. It's about as secure as you can make a computer that fits in your pocket. And if you're willing to spend the time, it can deliver a surprising amount of performance. Take it out for a spin. See what you think.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130937304
• ISBN 13: 9780130937308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412