Smart Card Standards and Platforms

Java Card

• Specification & documentation from Javasoft: Java Card 2.0
• Java Card Forum: www.javacardforum.org
• Article: Understanding Java Card 2.0
• Product
  • Gemplus development kit: GemXpresso
  • Schlumberger development kit: Cyberflex
  • De La Rue development kit: GalactIC
  • Bull development kit: Odyssey

Open Card Framework

• Specifications & documentation: OCF
• Article
  • Smart cards and the OpenCard Framework
  • How to write OpenCard card services for Java Card applets
  • Write OpenCard services for downloading Java Card apps

Visa Open Platform

• Specifications & documentation: Visa Open Platform

MULTOS

• Specifications & documentation: MULTOS

PC/SC

• Specifications & documentation: PC/SC Workgroup
• Microsoft Smart Card for Windows: Smart Card for Windows
  • Smart Card SDK: Windows Base Services component
  • Smart Card SDK mailing list archives

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Tutorials

• Smart Card Basics
• Overview of Smart Card Security

Soon-Yong Choi and Andrew B. Whinston

• "Smart Cards: Enabling Smart Commerce in the Digital Age.", CREC/KPMG White Paper, June 1998.

Roger Clarke's Papers

• Introduction to Chip-Cards and Smart Cards
• Smart Cards in Banking and Finance
• Smart Move by the Smart Card Industry  
• Privacy Issues in Smart Card Applications in the Retail Financial Sector
• The Monster from the Crypt: Impacts and Effects of Digital Money
• The Mondex Value-Card Scheme: A Mid-Term Report
• Europay Switzerland's SVC Project

Papers in US Government Program

• Why is the U.S. General Services Administration/OGP involved with smart cards? - This white paper describes how and why GSA/OGP is involved in the federal smart card program.

• GSA Electronic Commerce & Multi-Application Smart Card Initiatives (HTML version, 24 Slides) - Bill Holcombe, GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy, CardTech/SecurTech, Chicago 05/11/99

• U.S. Electronic Commerce/Smart Card initiatives (HTML version, 24 Slides) - Marty Wagner, GSA Associate Administrator, Office of Governmentwide Policy. Presentation before MasterCard's Latin America Region Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. 05/10/99.

• Smart Access Common ID Card: Project Update (HTML version, 14 Slides) - Larry Carnes, GSA/Office of Electronic Commerce. Presentation before the Smart Card Project Managers Group meeting. 04/29/99

• SmartCard Interoperability - Overview of GSA Initiatives (HTML version, 16 Slides) - Larry Carnes, GSA/Office of Electronic Commerce. 02/03/99

• Smart Access Common ID Card: Project Overview (HTML version, 15 Slides). Larry Carnes, GSA/Office of Electronic Commerce. Presentation before the Smart Card Project Managers Group meeting. 11/12/98

• Electronic Benefit Transfers - New Generation" (HTML version, 16 Slides) - Larry Carnes, GSA/Office of Electronic Commerce. 04/24/98

• Health Passport Project (HTML version, 20 Slides) - Larry Carnes, GSA/Office of Electronic Commerce. 03/19/98

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Smart Card News Site

• Smart Card Central News
• Smart Card News
• Smart Card Cyber Show

Association

• Card Europe
• Global Chipcard Alliance
• MAOSCO
• Smart Card Developer's Association
• Smart Card Forum
• Smart Card Industry Association

Card Manufacturers

• Bull
• CardLogix
• DeLaRue
• G&D
• Gemplus
• Schlumberger
• Toshiba

Conferences

• CardTech/SecurTech '99 (USA)
• Omnicard 99 (Germany)