Smart card organizations, conferences

• What is a Smart Card? Smart Card Forum http://www.smartcrd.com/info/whatis/whatis.htm
• Julie Krueger's Facing the Smart Card Security Issue Smart Card Forum http://www.smartcrd.com/info/more/security.htm
• Smart Card Industry Association. Contact for white papers, information. Fax-back: 800-405-7242. (As of early March '97, Web site under construction: http://www.scia.org)
• International Card Manufacturers Association "The international association of plastic card manfuacturers and suppliers of related equipment and services . . . addressing technical, production, security and other issues of interest to the industry." http://www.icma.com/icma
• CTST '97 CardTech/SecurTech (CTST) sponsors May 19-22, 1997. Orlando, Florida. Show for advanced card and security industry. Exhibits and panels on Internet security. (CTST '97-West will be in Dec 97 in Silicon Valley/Bay Area.) http://www.ctst.com
• The RSA Data Security Conference is held annually in January in San Francisco. RSA's site is also a wealth of information about encryption technology in general. http://www.rsa.com

Backgrounders/info sources on smart card technology & security

• IC (integrated circuit) One:Basic Smart Card History Page http://www.icone.com/bschau.htm
• Analyses & Synthèses', The History of Smart Cards, from "The Smart Card Museum" http://www.cardshow.com/museum/exhibition.html
• InfoSecurity News, -- The magazine for the protection of information. http://www.infosecnews.com
• To read projections of Smart Cards used for e-commerce (debit cards) on the Internet, see a news item about a Jupiter Communications study, E-Money, Smart Card use to increase by 2000,By James Niccolai, IDG News Service. ld.com/netscapeworld/nw-02-1997/nw-02-newsbriefs.html#emoney
• Building Intranet Applications A primer on Internet/intranet security concepts, by Laurence Shafe, Ph.D. (Pages 68+, published by Intelligent Environments, Burlington, Mass., 1996. Tel: 800-669-2797. Fax: 617-272-9300. E-mail: amsales@ieinc.com. Web site: http://www.ieinc.com/) http://www.ieinc.com
• Who's Reading Your E-mail?, by Richard Behar, Fortune magazine, February 3, 1997. http://pathfinder.com/@@Hu4XQAUAGIH9FXP3/fortune/1997/970203/eml.html

Selected smart card manufacturers

• Gemplus, of Gemenos, France. http://www.gemplus.com.
• Welcome to Smart Cards Tutorial http://www.gemplus.com/tutorial.htm
• Schlumberger Electronic Transactions,of Augsburg, Germany and Montrouge, France. Press Release: "PC/SC Workgroup to Develop Open Technology For Integrating Smart Cards and Personal Computers." http://www.slb.com/ms/et/et_news/pr-ms_scard.html

Selected smart card reader vendors

• Chrysalis Information Technology Security Inc. http://www.chrysalis-its.com.
• Chrysalis' advanced glossary of cryptographic and security terms http://www.chrysalis-its.com/tech/glossary.html
• DataKey of Burnsville, Minnesota. http://www.datakey.com/
• Smarty Fischer International Systems Corp.'s smart card reader in the "form" of a floppy disc that uses a floppy drive instead of requiring a dedicated smart card reader. http://www.fisc.com
• Key Tronic Corp., working with VeriFone Inc., plans to make keyboards with smart card support -- called VeriSmart-enabled integrated card readers. http://www.keytronic.com/prverifone.htm
• Litronic Corp., of Costa Mesa, Calif. http://www.litronic.com

Other hardware & software vendors encorporating smart card technology

• Bull Worldwide Information Systems http://www.bull.com
• Entegrity's Notary Plus brings smart card capabilites to security diskettes as part of its Security Development Platform (SDP). http://www.entegrity.com
• Hewlett-Packard's Praseidum/Single Sign-on technology offers user authentication via smart cards as an option. http;//www.hp.com/go/security. HP is also part of the ImagineCard initiative with Gemplus and Informix. HP's International Cyrptography Framework technology will run on Gemplus' GPK2000 smart card.
• IBM Smart Card Solutions http://www.chipcard.ibm.com/ Also,IBM's Registry is a software package the uses digital certificates for user authentication -- it supports PC cards as well as smart cards. http://www.ibm.com/security.html/prkeyrec.html/
• Visa testing smart cards with U.K. banks, consumers, by Kristi Essick, IDG News Service.Motorola and Visa International experimented with stored value smart cards using Motorola's "fast crypto chip" at the Altanta Olympics, and are now conducting tests in Leeds, England. See item in NetscapeWorld News Briefs, E-commerce News subsection, February 15th, http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-02-1997/nw-02-newsbriefs2.html#Visa
• Oracle has signed a number of deals with security vendors to integrate Oracle7 databases with centralized authentication servers, smart cards, and fingerprint identification schemes. http://www.oracle.com/
• Portland Software http://www.portsoft.com/
• BSAFE 4.0 developers toolkit now features smart card support. RSA Data Security's recently released http://www.securid.com/
• RSA Data Security Conference -- tracking network security, key-recovery, secure e-mail,& more, by Jim Carr. NetscapeWorld's New Products column, Feb. 15,1997 http://www.netscapeworld.com/netscapeworld/nw-02-1997/nw-02-newproducts2.html
• Sun Microsystem's JavaStation to have built-in smart card support. http://www.sun.com/961029/JES/newproducts/
• V-ONE Corporation. SmartGate is a smart card-based suite of integrated security products that enable business applications over intranets and the Internet. SmartWall is a clinet/server firewall product that uses smart cards to authenticate users in fully encrypted intranet sessions behind the firewall. Check out: V-ONE's Five Elements of Security explanation of encyrption, non-repudiation, etc. http://www.v-one.com

VeriSign http://www.verisign.com/pr/pr_smartcard.html

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