Smart Cards: The Developer's Toolkit (Essential Guide) [Paperback]

Timothy M. Jurgensen (Author), Scott B. Guthery (Author)

Book Description

Series: Essential Guide | Publication Date: July 9, 2002

Smart Cards, already widely used in Europe and rapidly gaining acceptance in North America, offer a powerful solution for maximizing security in a wide range of applications. In this book, two of the world's leading Smart Card consultants present a thorough, up-to-date, accessible introduction to Smart Card technology that will be valuable for decision-makers, developers, and marketers alike. Smart Cards: A Developer's Toolkit presents a start-to-finish overview of the design and development of multi-application smart card environments. Tim Jurgensen and Scott Guthery cover every step of the process: selecting platforms, the logistics of initial deployment, support for continuous operations, ongoing management of card populations, and much more. For all CIOs, corporate security officers, market development and engineering project managers, application developers, systems integrators, and sales/marketing professionals interested in Smart Card technology.

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The complete smart card guidebook for decision-makers, product managers, developers, and integrators.

• Smart card application development from start to finish: design, development, and deployment
• Covers every component of a complete system: cards, readers, host software, management systems, and more
• Focuses on advanced "post issuance programmable" multi-application smart cards
• Presents detailed case studies and product coverage
• Offers up-to-the-minute insights into the evolving smart card marketplace and smart card technology

Smart cards represent a breakthrough solution for maximizing security in a wide range of applications. Now, two leading smart card consultants present a thorough, up-to-date, accessible introduction to smart card technology that will be invaluable to developers and decision-makers alike. Smart Cards: A Developer's Toolkit covers all you need to know to plan, design, develop, and deploy advanced multi-application smart card environments, including:

• Smart card physical structure, construction, tamper resistance, and tamper-evident features
• International standards, inter-industry command sets, and industry specifications
• "Post issuance programmable" smart cards: the cutting edge of smart card deployment
• An in-depth review of two "high-performance" smart cards, including one multi-application card
• PC and workstation host software for supporting smart cards
• Applications with the SIM smart cards in GSM and 3G mobile phones
• Card management systems and readers for large-scale applications in real-world environments
• The evolving marketplace for smart cards in the U.S. and worldwide

The authors present case studies from today's most advanced smart card deployments, covering both the logistics of initial deployment and best practices for supporting ongoing operations and card populations. Whether you're an IT manager, corporate security officer, product manager, developer, or integrator, Smart Cards: A Developer's Toolkit gives you a powerful new weapon for protecting your digital assets.

About the Author

TIMOTHY M. JURGENSEN is an independent consultant specializing in smart cards and high-security infrastructures. Jurgensen has consulted on several projects utilizing smart cards for network and physical access, contributes to key smart card standards bodies, and is actively involved in security certifications for smart cards.

SCOTT B. GUTHERY is currently Chief Technical Officer for Mobile-Mind, Inc., where he is designing and building Fujitsu's new smart card operating system, HIPERSIM. He developed the technical solutions and led the team that created the original Java Smart Card at Schlumberger, and was architect of Microsoft's Windows for Smart Card Operating System. Jurgensen and Guthery co-authored The Smart Card Developer's Kit, a leading resource for smart card software development and the first book to contain a smart card.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (July 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130937304
• ISBN-13: 978-0130937308
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,166,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview of smartcard technology, March 14, 2006

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This review is from: Smart Cards: The Developer's Toolkit (Essential Guide) (Paperback)

An all-in-one book on smartcard and its applications. Covers different aspects of smartcard technology, including payment systems, mobile communication application, card management system and Microsoft's PC/SC. One of the cheapest books around for smartcards which gives good overview of the technology. Some of the ISO and SIM APDU commands are covered at great length. Includes an example applet, for those interested in development. The book also has technical details about Schlumberger's (now Axalto) Cyberflex and Cryptoflex cards.