Smart Card Security and Applications, Second Edition

  • Authors:
  • Mike Hendry

  • Affiliations:
  • -

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  • Smart Card Security and Applications, Second Edition
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

From the Publisher:This extensively updated, second edition of the popular Artech House book, Smart Card Security and Applications, offers you a current overview of the ways smart cards address the computer security issues of today's distributed applications. Brand new discussions on multi-application operating systems, computer networks, and the Internet are included to keep you abreast of the very latest developments in this field. The book provides you with technical details on the newest protection mechanisms, features a discussion on the effects of recent attacks, and gives you a clear methodology for solving your unique security problems. From user authentication in remote payments, Internet transactions, and telephony... to fraud and counterfeit in card payments... to electronic ticketing, portability, and confidentiality, this comprehensive resource describes the major applications of smart cards. It explains how smart cards are particularly relevant to Internet-based applications, and to payment in the modern world through the use of cryptography, public key infrastructures, and biometrics.