Java Card: Internet Computing on a Smart Card

  • Authors:
  • Scott B. Guthery

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The smart card-which offers Internet programmers a truly safe place to generate and store a private encryption key-will soon be recognized as a useful component of Internet computing. Until now the security precautions surrounding smart-card technology have effectively prevented its use in general computing systems, but the recent implementation of the secure Internet language Java on a smart card not only opens up smart-card programming to everyone but connects smart cards directly with standard programming applications in use on the Internet