How Smart is your card
by Vinoth[ Edit ] 2008-11-05 09:26:22
Hi,
Smartness is depends on works quickly in background. It has a microprocessor and some memory element. There are some smart cards
like SIM Card in your phone,international credit cards, even your employee ID card etc. It is made up by incorporating a chip, which is an intelligence device
that can do a set of operation is programed to do.
It has task like data storage, retrieval, authentication, digital signing, encryption etc.
If you require any of the following identification, authentication, data storage, e-purse, GSM based communication, physical and logic control
operation and host of other needs a smart card can be answer.
Addition of smart chips that makes the smart card.Smart card has the ability to hold few keys for cryptography in a secure manner and a co-processor to
run cryptographic algorithm in a reasonable short time.
we can simply say a card with an embedded processor.