DIMENSIONS

DIMENSIONS

A “smart card” is also characterized as follows

• Dimensions are normally credit card size. The ID-1 of ISO/IEC 7810 standard defines them as 85.60 × 53.98 mm. Another popular size is ID-000 which is 25 × 15 mm (commonly used in SIM cards). Both are 0.76 mm thick.

• Contains a security system with tamper-resistant properties (e.g. a secure cryptoprocessor, secure file system, human-readable features) and is capable of providing security services (e.g. confidentiality of information in the memory).

• Asset managed by way of a central administration system which interchanges information and configuration settings with the card through the security system. The latter includes card hotlisting, updates for application data.

• Card data is transferred to the central administration system through card reading devices, such as ticket readers, ATMs etc.

Benefits

Smart cards can be used for identification, authentication, and data storage.

Smart cards provide a means of effecting business transactions in a flexible, secure, standard way with minimal human intervention.

Smart card can provide strong authentication for single sign-on or enterprise single sign-on to computers, laptops, data with encryption, enterprise resource planning platforms such as SAP, etc.