|
|
Article: Smart-card OSs aid application development. (operating system)(Out in Front: What's Hot in the Design Community)
- Article from:
- EDN
- Article date:
- October 10, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Smart-card OSs provide the common ground that card vendors and application developers need to design and develop applications. They can obtain smart-card OS information via the Internet. For a comprehensive list of who's who in smart cards, try http:// www.cardshow.com. The site links to various smart-card standards societies and universities engaged in smart-card research. Unfortunately, none of the card suppliers offers free, publicly available technical information for smart-card OSs -- both for security reasons and to protect intellectual property. However, you can obtain information on a particular smart-card OS as part of an evaluation package. Such packages, which ...