Smart card security and applications - Hendry, Mike (Artech House, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The march of the card -- - What is a chip card? -- - Systems and procedures -- - Market issues -- - Problem Definition -- - Perceptions -- - ... and reality -- - Calculating the risks: probabilities and odds -- - Technical communication obstacles -- - Specifying the Requirements -- - Security criteria -- - Quantifying the threat -- - Standards -- - Documenting the specification -- - Technology -- - Card Technology -- - Visual features -- - Magnetic stripe -- - Enhancing security using complementary technologies -- - Optical -- - Smart cards -- - Hybrids -- - PCMCIA cards -- - Others -- - Encryption -- - Cryptology overview and terminology -- - Algorithms -- - Keys -- - Key management -- - Public key infrastructures -- - Computational requirements -- - Cryptography export controls -- - Passwords and Biometrics -- - Personal identification types -- - Requirements -- - Components -- - Passwords and PINs -- - Behavioral -- - Physiometric -- - Biometrics and cards -- - Chip Card Types and Characteristics -- - Memory cards -- - Microprocessor cards -- - Contact and contactless -- - Form factors -- - Chip Card Security Features -- - Carrier -- - External security features -- - Chip -- - Contacts -- - Antenna -- - Mask -- - Attacks and countermeasures -- - Reliability factors -- - Sample card specifications -- - Multiapplication Operating Systems -- - Functions -- - Products -- - System Components -- - Reader -- - Terminal -- - Network -- - Host systems -- - Processes and Procedures -- - Chip design -- - Manufacture -- - Personalization -- - Issuance -- - Loading/validation -- - Use -- - Lost, stolen, and misused cards
This extensively updated, second edition offers the reader a current overview of the ways smart cards address the computer security issues of today's distributed applications