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Smart Cards Introduction

Overview Smart cards represent a new technology that has tremendous potential for enhancing the security of distributed systems. This RFC, 57.0, introduces smart card terminology, describes current smart card technology (including physical and logical characteristics), discusses the current status of smart card standardization, and closes with a brief discussion of the benefits DCE could gain by utilizing smart cards. A follow-on RFC, titled "DCE Smart Card Integration" [MER 57.1], describes a proposed DCE implementation.

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Publisher: Smart Card Alliance
File Format: HTML
Date Published: Feb 25, 2004
Format: White Papers
Topics: Smart Cards

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