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unusual facts about Smart Card


Smart card

In 1968 and 1969 German electrical engineers Helmut Gröttrup and Jürgen Dethloff jointly filed patents for the automated chip card (for details see page of Helmut Gröttrup).


Bevil Wooding

Wooding was one of seven people in the world entrusted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) with a special cryptographicsmart-card’ that holds part of a key used to generate the Domain Name Server Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol that protects Internet domain names.

Chipknip

All ATM cards issued by Dutch banks have smart cards that can be loaded with value via Chipknip loading stations next to ATMs.

Common Access Card

The Common Access Card, also colloquially referred to as the CAC (often called CAC card, due to what is informally known as RAS syndrome), is a smart card about the size of a credit card.

Mobile device

Enterprise digital assistants can further extend the available functionality for the business user by offering integrated data capture devices like barcode, RFID and smart card readers.

MULTOS

MULTOS is a multi-application smart card operating system, that enables a smart card to carry a variety of applications, from chip and pin application for payment to on-card biometric matching for secure ID and ePassport.

Personal health record

Some PHR products allow the copying of health records to a mass-storage device such as a CD-ROM, DVD, smart card, or USB flash drive.

Schabir Shaik

It tendered for various contracts, among which the upgrading of Durban International Airport, a national identity card, road projects for the N3 and N4 highways, the third cellular telephone network, and smart card technology.

Toyohashi Railroad

From February 2011, the Manaca Smart Card system was implemented on the Toyohashi Railway network.

UICC

: Note: the official definition for UICC is found in ETSI TR 102 216 where it is defined as a "smart card that conforms to the specifications written and maintained by the ETSI Smart Card Platform project".


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CIPURSE

It employs existing, proven open standards, including the ISO/IEC 7816 smart card standard, as well as the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard and the ISO/IEC 14443 protocol layer.

Cryptography Research

In 2009, Frost & Sullivan awarded the company the World Smart Card Technology Leadership of the Year Award, noting that the company is "one of the highest-volume and highest-value technology licensors in the semiconductor industry" and that "more than 4 billion security chips are produced under its licenses every year".

Datacard

The standard ISO/IEC 7816 also regulates data exchange protocols and some aspects of work with other smart card data.

HCE

Host Card Emulation, a presentation of a virtual and exact representation of a smart card using only software

ITSEC

The formal Z notation was used to prove security properties about the Mondex smart card electronic cash system, allowing it to achieve ITSEC level E6, the highest granted security-level classification.

Java Card OpenPlatform

On 31 January 2006 the development and support responsibilities transferred to the IBM Smart Card Technology team in Böblingen, Germany.

Subscriber identity module

The first SIM card was made in 1991 by Munich smart-card maker Giesecke & Devrient, who sold the first 300 SIM cards to the Finnish wireless network operator Radiolinja.

Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation actions

EFF helps defend "smart card" technology owner Mike Treworgy after DirecTV sued him based on the fact that he purchased hardware that could be used to intercept the company's satellite TV signals.