Smart Card Application Development Using Java

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, and as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java and the OpenCard Framework. It gives you the basic information you need about smart cards and how they work. It shows in detail how to develop applications that use smart cards by guiding you through examples step by step. A smart card provided with the book will help you to quickly get some first hands-on experience.

Authoritative, practice-orientated insight into smart card technology and programming Quick and in-depth introduction to smart cards and smart card application development Adoption of the latest version of the OpenCard Framework (V1.2), update of the described Java Card version, overall improvements and update of the content Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
I Smart Card Introduction and Overview.- 1 What Makes the Smart Card Smart?.- 2 Introduction to Smart Card Software.- 3 Smart Cards and e-business.- 4 Cryptography.- 5 Smart Card Readers and Terminals.- 6 Smart Card Standards and Industry Initiatives.- II OpenCard Framework 85.- 7 Introduction to OpenCard.- 8 The Utility Classes.- 9 The Terminal Layer.- 10 The Service Layer.- 11 The OCF Security Concepts.- III Smart Card Application Development Using OCF 193.- 12 Using OCF.- 13 OCF and e-business.- 14 Java Card and OCF.- 15 Card and Application Management.- 16 OCF for Embedded Devices.- IV Appendixes 273.- A The Card.- A.1 The IBM MultiFunction Card.- A.2 The File Structure on the Card.- A.3 Accessing the Card.- B Useful Web Sites.- C Bibliography.- D Glossary.- E Index.