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Smart Card Handbook
Smart Card Handbook
Building on previous editions, this third edition of the Smart Card Handbook offers an excellent overview of smartcard technology, and guidance on how smartcard applications are designed and built. Everything you need to know about smartcards and their applications is covered.
The book describes the advantages and disadvantages of smartcards when compared with other systems, such as optical cards and magnetic stripe cards, explains the technologies involved, and goes into detail on many subjects, including different smartcard applications (payment, public key certificate storage, mobile telephony, digital tachographs etc) and smartcard terminals (PC/SC, Java OpenCard Framework etc).
The book also covers the various relevant European and international standards, aspects of smartcard security, and smartcard operating systems, command sets and typical functions, and includes practical guidance on other applications of smartcards, including health insurance cards, e-ticketing, wireless security, digital signatures and advanced electronic payment methods.
The book is filled with information that students, system architects, developers and researchers will find useful, and is the ideal reference book for this market.
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