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- Smart Card
- A credit card with a built-in microprocessor and memory used for identification or financial transactions. When inserted into a reader, it transfers data to and from a central computer....
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- Aloaha Sign 3.9.172 (Windows)
- Aloaha Sign is an excellent tool for validating PDF, p7m, d2d, xmldsig, or PKCS 7 signatures. Furthermore it is possible to digitally sign virtually any file type with any native supported smartcard.
- Tags: Smart Card, Native, Wrocklage Intermedia, Aloaha Sign, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-22
- Authentication Mechanisms for Physical Access Control
- The Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of IDentity PLAID is an authentication protocol that uses standards-based symmetric and asymmetric cryptography in a unique way to protect the communications between smart cards and terminal devices. Extremely fast and highly secure strong authentication of the smart card and data objects is possible without...
- Tags: Smart Card, Authentication Mechanism, Access Control, Authentication, Smart Card Alliance, PLAID, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Identifiers and Authentication - Smart Credential Choices to Protect Digital Identity
- In a digital age, the reality is that simple identifiers (e.g., e-mail addresses, login names, and identification numbers) are used without any protection and should be considered public information even though they point to a specific individual. In addition to the increase in public exposure of such data, the provisions...
- Tags: Smart Card, Authentication, Digital Identity, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2009-09-25
- End-to-End Encryption and Chip Cards in the U.S. Payments Industry
- This position paper attempts to clarify and define end-to-end encryption, and detail the problems it solves and those it does not. It also explores the advantages of an alternative strategy for protecting the cardholder data - moving data protection to the true endpoint, the payment card itself, using chip card...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Payment, Industry, Encryption, Chip, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Security, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2009-09-01
- Aloaha Sign 3.9.115 (Windows)
- Aloaha Sign is an excellent tool for validating PDF, p7m, d2d, xmldsig, or PKCS 7 signatures. Furthermore it is possible to digitally sign virtually any file type with any native supported smartcard.
- Tags: Smart Card, Native, Wrocklage Intermedia, Aloaha Sign, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-08-14
- SmartCard 1.00 (Mobile)
- With SmartCard's help you will:Always know your credit positionFind the best strategy for paying your credit cardsbudget expendituresAvoid incorrect chargesStay in controlSave moneySmartCard features:Main menu, bar display, quick views of all or individual card balancesViews transactions by card and category combinationBar displays of budgeted categories.Quick overview Statistics screenEasy statement reconcile...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Mobile, Smartcard-pda, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- EmbSmartCard 1.01 (Windows)
- EmbSmartCard is a professional tool for smart card command monitoring. It intercepts the communication between the smart card reader and the operating system with real time displaying of the traced commands. This program is beta version and so far plug and play feature is not supported. x64 systems are not...
- Tags: Smart Card, Microsoft Windows, EmbTech, EmbSmartCard, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- Software downloads 2009-05-06
- Recommendation on the Credential Numbering Scheme for the FIPS 201 PIV Card Global Unique Identifier
- This paper presents a proposal by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council PAC on the population of the GUID field found within the Cardholder Unique ID CHUID of a PIV card. Past industry submissions to the Physical Access Interagency Interoperability Working Group PAIIWG, as early as April 2004, recommended...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2009-03-01
- A Healthcare CFO's Guide to Smart Card Technology and Applications
- Healthcare is seeing a steady and increasing dependence on information technology that is rapidly transforming the practice of medicine and the delivery of care. Technology is an ever-changing and evolving aspect of modern business. For healthcare CFOs, the challenge is not only to secure the funding for new technology, but...
- Tags: Smart Card, Health Care, CFO, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Security, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Making Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Practical With Smartcards
- Data mining provides large benefits to the commercial, government and homeland security sectors, but the aggregation and storage of huge amounts of data about citizens inevitably leads to an erosion of privacy. To achieve the benefits that data mining has to offer, while at the same time enhancing privacy, one...
- Tags: Smart Card, Privacy, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2009-01-20
- SmartCard Manager 1.0.3 (Windows)
- SmartCard Manager can send any APDU commands to smart/sim card. Inside we defined some standard GSM commands like a 'Select Telecom' folder, verify CHV1. With SmartCard Manager you can test your own communication with any compatible PC/SC reader. Version 1.0.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
- Tags: Smart Card, Microsoft Windows, IOMS, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- Software downloads 2009-01-12
- Identity Management Systems, Smart Cards and Privacy
- The requirement - how to identify people unequivocally while also protecting their privacy-shapes every discussion of how to design, build, or implement a new, secure, identity management system. Designing a new identity management system is complex, and the requirement to balance security and privacy affects everything about a system design,...
- Tags: Smart Card, Privacy, Identity Management, Smart Card Alliance, Authentication/Encryption, Smart Cards, Security Administration, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Macs to gain smart card-based login to Active Directory
- Just like their Windows coworkers, Mac users in the enterprise will have more options to log into Windows Active Directory services using smart card technology. According to access-control management company Centrify support for smart card-based login will be available next month. A beta version is available now. by David Morgenstern
- Tags: Smart Card, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security, David Morgenstern, Centrify, Desktops, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Using FIPS 201 and the PIV Card for the Corporate Enterprise
- Establishing a robust identity management framework within an enterprise requires both the implementation of new business processes and the selection of appropriate credentialing technology. While there are many approaches to enterprise identity management, industry and government have worked for over 10 years to develop both a standardized identification process within...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Alliance Inc., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Government, Smart Cards, Security Administration, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Cryptanalysis on Improved Remote User Authentication Scheme Preserving User Anonymity
- Remote user authentication using smartcards is the most widely used scheme for a valid user to login to a remote server and to access the services provided by the server over insecure channels. Due to the convenience, secure storage, and secure computation of smartcards, many smartcard-based remote authentication schemes have...
- Tags: Smart Card, Remote User, Server, Authentication, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Interoperable Identity Credentials for the Air Transport Industry
- Since September 11, 2001, the air transportation system - airports and air carriers - has been subjected to significantly more security measures and procedures to counter threats to U.S. civil aviation. One area of security that has received considerable attention is the deployment of an interoperable Identification ID credential system...
- Tags: Smart Card, Industry, Smart Card Alliance, Transportation, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XP
- Microsoft to tweak WGA Notifications on Windows XPDo it right......kill WGA altogether!! Time to start listening to your customers, M$!!WGA, friend or foe?Somebody at my work brought to me his laptop that had XP pro. A friend of his had sold it to him and when he tried to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Integrated Solution Eases Path to Increased Security for Leading Italian Bank
- As the sixth-largest banking group in Italy, Banca Carige must maintain a constant focus on security. When the bank decided to implement strong, two-factor authentication based on smart cards, it needed a solution that would minimize the associated costs and complexity. Banca Carige met that need with Microsoft Identity Lifecycle...
- Tags: Smart Card, Microsoft Corp., Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security
- Case studies 2008-08-22
- London Underground's card system fails
- The RFID-based smartcard technology providing access control to London's public transportation system failed on Saturday, when the network stopped accepting cards. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, London, London Underground, Oyster Card System, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
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