ByMurtaza Lal Arshak Pallavi Jeevitha Mounika

In

1968 German inventors Helmut & Jurgen patent combination of plastic cards with micro chips In 1977, Michel Hugon from Honeywell Bull came out with the microprocessor smart card

smart card is a plastic card about the size of a credit card, with an embedded microchip that can be loaded with data The inside of a smart card usually contains an embedded microprocessor The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card Smart card are defined by ISO 7816 standards

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cards Electronic cash Computer security systems Mobile communication Banking Satellite TV Government identification

Worldwide smart card shipments

4500 4000 Millions of units 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Microprocessor cards Memory cards

4285
3580

3325 2655

960 925 960 925

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based readers Connect through USB or COM (Serial) ports

Dedicated

terminals Usually with a small screen, keypad, printer, often also have biometric devices such as thumb print scanner.

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Portability Increasing data storage capacity Security Reliability

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Security

failure rate

3.

probability of breaking: keeping in wallets

may damage the chip on the card.

4.

malware attacks: active malwares on systems may result in modifying the transactions.

By 2020

20 Billion Smart Secure Devices

>4 Billion Mobile Appliances users >4 Billion e-ID documents in use